Second-harmonic spectroscopy of Si nanocrystals embedded in silica

被引:3
作者
Wirth, A. [1 ]
Wel, J. [1 ]
Gielis, J. J. H. [2 ]
Figliozzi, P. [1 ]
Rafaelsen, J. [3 ]
An, Y. Q. [1 ]
Downer, M. C. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[2] Eindhoven Univ Technol, Dept Appl Phys, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands
[3] Aalborg Univ, Inst Fysik Nanoteknol, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark
来源
PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI C - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, VOL 5, NO 8 | 2008年
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1002/pssc.200779125
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Extending previous second-harmonic generation (SHG) single-wavelength studies [1] of Si nanocrystals (NCs) embedded in fused silics, we implement spectroscopic cross-polarized teo-beam SHG (XP2-SHG) by employing as optical parametric amplifier as a source of widely tunable (1.6 <= E-ph <= 2.4 eV) femtosecond pulses. Subsequent isolation of the SH signal produced by the NCs yields the oscillator strength and phase of their non-linear response. We obtain a broad resonance between bulk Si E-1 and E-2 critical points. Possible explanations for the spectroscopic result are discussed. (c) 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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