Grain interaction effect in electronic properties of silicon nanosize films
- 10 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 70 (6) , 744-746
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.118267
Abstract
Electronic properties of both nanometer thickness (111) monocrystalline and nanocrystalline free standing silicon films were calculated within a self-consistent linear combination of atomic orbitals method. Grained nature of the nanocrystalline films is found to induce both a direct band gap and its reduction (down to about 2 eV) with respect to an isolated grain of same size.Keywords
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