Growth of silicon quantum dots by oxidation of the silicon nanocrystals embedded within silicon carbide matrix

A moderately low temperature (≤800 °C) thermal processing technique has been described for the growth of the silicon quantum dots (Si-QD) within microcrystalline silicon carbide (μc-SiC:H) dielectric thin films deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) process. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Arindam Kole, Partha Chaudhuri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2014-10-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4897378