Lighting up silicon nanoparticles with Mie resonances

As an indirect semiconductor, silicon shows notoriously inefficient luminescence. Here, the authors utilize the Mie resonances in silicon nanoparticles to demonstrate visible white-light emission, both from free-standing spheres and particles etched on a silicon-on-insulator substrate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chengyun Zhang, Yi Xu, Jin Liu, Juntao Li, Jin Xiang, Hui Li, Jinxiang Li, Qiaofeng Dai, Sheng Lan, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05394-z