Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Carbon-doped SiO x nanowires with a large yield of white emission

The growth of SiO x nanowires (NWs) with intense white emission is reported. Due to carbon monoxide gas being used as a dopant precursor, carbon-doped under-stoichiometric silicon dioxide NWs are obtained. The doping of the NWs is studied by means of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, which allows to assess the presence of carbon atoms in the silicon oxide amorphous structure. The light emission properties are studied by means of cathodoluminescence spectroscopy, which shows three main emission bands set at 2.7 eV (blue), 2.3 eV (green) and 1.9 eV (red), resulting in the white emission.

Filippo Fabbri, Francesca Rossi, Marco Negri, Roberta Tatti, Lucrezia Aversa, Sathish Chander Dhanabalan, Roberto Verucchi, Giovanni Attolini and Giancarlo Salviati

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