Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Silicon Nanocrystals along their Aggregation Stages

Details Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Silicon Nanocrystals along their Aggregation Stages Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Silicon Nanocrystals along their Aggregation Stages

2008-04-12

arxiv.org/abs/0804.2016v1

Physica E 38, 112-117 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physe.2006.12.018

The structural control of silicon nanocrystals is an important technological problem. Typically a distribution of nanocrystal sizes and shapes emerges under the uncontrolled aggregation of smaller clusters. The aim of this computational study is to investigate the evolution of the nanocrystal electronic states and their optical properties throughout their aggregation stages. To realistically tackle such systems, an atomistic electronic structure tool is required that can accommodate about tens of thousand nanocrystal and embedding lattice atoms with very irregular shapes. For this purpose, a computationally-efficient pseudopotential-based electronic structure tool is developed that can handle realistic nanostructures based on the expansion of the wavefunction of the aggregate in terms of bulk Bloch bands of the constituent semiconductors. With this tool, the evolution of the electronic states as well as the polarization-dependent absorption spectra correlated with the oscillator strengths over their aggregation stages are traced. The low-lying aggregate nanocrystal states develop binding and anti-binding counterparts of the isolated states. Such information may become instrumental with the maturity of the controlled aggregation of these nanocrystals.

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