氮化硅薄膜中纳米非晶硅颗粒的键合结构及光致发光

采用螺旋波等离子体化学气相沉积技术以N₂/SiH₄/H₂为反应气体制备了镶嵌有纳米非晶硅颗粒的氢化氮化硅薄膜,通过改变N₂流量实现了薄膜从红到蓝绿的可调谐光致发光.傅里叶红外透射和紫外-可见光吸收特性分析表明,所生长薄膜具有较高的氢含量,N₂流量增加使氢的键合结构发生变化,非晶硅颗粒尺寸减小,所对应的薄膜的光学带隙逐渐增加和微观结构有序度减小.可调光致发光(PL)主要来源于纳米硅颗粒的量子限制效应发光,随N₂流量增加,PL的谱线展宽并逐渐增强. 关键词： 傅里叶红外透射谱 光吸收谱 纳米硅粒子镶嵌薄膜 光致发光     

包含硅量子点的富硅SiNx 薄膜结构与发光特性

采用等离子体增强化学气相沉积法, 以NH₃与SiH₄为反应气体, n型单晶硅为衬底, 低温(220 ℃)沉积了富硅氮化硅(SiN_x)薄膜. 在N₂氛围中, 于500–1100 ℃ 范围内对样品进行了热退火处理. 采用Raman 光谱技术分析了薄膜内硅量子点的结晶情况, 结果表明, 当退火温度低于950 ℃时, 样品的晶化率低于18%, 而当退火温度升为1100 ℃, 晶化率增加至53%, 说明大部分硅量子点都由非晶态转变为晶态. 实验通过Fourier 变换红外吸收(FTIR)光谱检测了样品中各键的键合结构演变, 发现Si–N键和Si–H键随退火温度升高向高波数方向移动, 说明了薄膜内近化学计量比的氮化硅逐渐形成. 实验还通过光致发光(PL)光谱分析了各样品的发光特性, 发现各样品中均有5个发光峰, 讨论了它们的发光来源, 结合Raman光谱与FTIR光谱表明波长位于500–560 nm的绿光来源于硅量子点, 其他峰则来源于薄膜内的缺陷态. 研究了硅量子点的分布和尺寸对发光带移动的影响, 并根据PL峰位计算了硅量子点的尺寸, 其大小为1.6–3 nm, 具有良好的限域效应. 这些结果有助于制备尺寸不同的硅量子点和基于硅量子点光电器件的实现. 关键词： 硅量子点 氮化硅薄膜 光致发光 Fourier 变换红外吸收     

包埋于氮化硅薄膜中的硅团簇的光致发光特性

采用等离子体增强化学气相沉积(PECVD)技术,在低温下制备了富硅氢化氮化硅薄膜。利用红外吸收(IR)谱,光电子能谱(XPS)和光致发光(PL)谱,研究了在不同温度下退火的薄膜样品的结构和发光特性。在经过低温退火的薄膜中观测到一个强的可见发光峰。当退火温度较高时,随着与硅悬键有关的发光峰消失,可见发光峰位发生了蓝移。讨论了退火对薄膜中硅团簇的形成及其对发光的影响。根据Raman谱,计算了氮化硅薄膜中硅团簇的尺寸大小。通过实验结果和分析,我们认为PL谱中较强的室温可见发光峰来自于包埋于氮化硅中的硅团簇。     

纳米硅结构薄膜光致发光的温度依赖特性

综合考虑纳米硅结构薄膜的特殊性质,如量子限制效应、光学带隙和光跃迁振子强度对纳米硅粒径的依赖特性以及光学带隙和光辐射的温度依赖特性等,给出了一个解析表达式来分析具有一定粒径分布的纳米硅结构薄膜的光致发光(PL)强度分布,其中选取了两种纳米硅的粒径分布,即高斯分布和对数正态分布。结果表明,随着平均粒径和粒径分布偏差的减小,纳米硅薄膜的PL谱峰蓝移。随着环境温度的升高,纳米硅结构薄膜的PL谱峰红移且相对发光强度减弱。纳米硅结构薄膜光辐射拟合的结果与实验数据的比较分析表明,该模型能够很好地解释纳米硅结构薄膜在不同温度下的PL特性。     

氢等离子体气氛中退火多孔硅的表面和光荧光特性

用电化学腐蚀法制备了多孔硅(PS),在氢等离子体气氛中不同温度下对多孔硅样品进行了退火处理,并进行了光致发光(PL)谱和原子力显微镜(AFM)表面形貌的测量。不同退火温度给PS表面形态带来较大变化,也影响了其PL谱特性。在退火的样品中观察到的PL谱高效蓝光和紫光谱带,我们认为主要源于量子限制发光峰和非平衡载流子被带隙中浅杂质能级所俘获而引起的辐射复合所产生的。在420—450℃退火处理的多孔硅的PL谱上观察到了一个未见诸于报道的紫光新谱带(3．24eV,382nm),其发光机理有待于进一步研究。     

内电场对纳米硅光致发光谱的影响

从量子限制发光中心模型出发，计算了纳米硅的光致发光（PL）特征与发光中心间的关系. 研究发现，纳米硅与发光中心间的内电场对载流子复合率及峰位振荡有着十分重要的影响. 在2—5 nm的尺寸范围内，纳米硅发光中心上的载流子复合概率远大于内部复合概率，仅需考虑发光中心上的载流子复合发光. 还发现发光中心与纳米硅粒子间的内电场对于纳米硅的发光峰位振荡有着显著的影响.发光中心与纳米硅粒子间的内电场的存在会显著减小纳米硅粒子的内部发光效率以及外部相应发光中心上的发光强度，使得纳米硅PL谱的峰位随纳米晶粒尺寸变化而发生 关键词： 内电场 纳米硅 光致发光 量子限制发光中心     

磁控共溅射法沉积的硅量子点SiN_x薄膜的光谱特性

采用双极脉冲和射频磁控共溅射沉积法在不同温度的Si(100)衬底和石英衬底上制备了富硅SiNx薄膜。在氮气氛中,于1 050℃下采用快速光热退火热处理,获得了包含硅量子点的SiNx薄膜。采用Fourier变换红外光谱、Raman光谱、掠入射X射线衍射和光致发光光谱对退火后的薄膜样品进行了表征。结果显示:Fourier变换红外光谱中出现了富硅Si—N键,表明薄膜为富硅SiNx薄膜;当衬底温度不低于200℃时,薄膜样品的拉曼光谱中出现了硅纳米晶的Si—Si振动横光学模,掠入射X射线衍射中出现了明显的Si(111)和Si(311)的衍射峰,证实了硅量子点的形成;发现存在一最佳衬底温度(300℃),该条件下获得的硅量子点的数量和晶化率最高;衬底温度为300和400℃的样品的光致发光光谱中均有3个可见荧光峰,结合拉曼光谱结果,用纳米晶硅的量子限域效应和辐射复合缺陷态对荧光峰进行了合理解释;由光致发光光谱计算出的衬底温度为300和400℃的样品的硅量子点平均尺寸分别为3.5和3.4nm。这些结果有助于优化含硅量子点的SiNx薄膜的制备参数,在硅基光电子器件的应用方面有重要意义。     

镶嵌在氢化氮化硅中纳米非晶硅粒子光吸收的模拟

采用量子限制效应模型对镶嵌有纳米非晶硅粒子的氢化氮化硅薄膜的光吸收进行了理论模拟,探讨了由吸收谱分析给出该结构薄膜光学参数的方法,并通过对不同氮含量样品的讨论给出了量子限制效应和纳米硅粒子表面的结构无序对薄膜光吸收特性的影响规律。分析结果表明,随氮含量的增加,薄膜有效光学带隙增大,该结果与薄膜中纳米硅粒子平均尺寸的减小引起的量子限制效应的增强相关,而小粒度纳米硅粒子比例增加所引入的较高微观结构无序度和较多缺陷将会导致薄膜低能吸收区吸收系数增加。     

纳米硅薄膜/多孔氧化铝复合体系光致发光的温度特性

利用高真空电子束蒸发方法在多孔氧化铝衬底上生长了纳米硅薄膜,经过650℃高温真空退火后,在10～300K温度范围内观测样品的荧光光谱特性,并对样品进行了场扫描电镜(SEM)、傅里叶变换红外吸收(FTIR)光谱、X射线衍射(XRD)谱的分析。PL谱结果表明,随着温度的升高,样品的发光峰位一般发生红移,但在50～80K范围内却出现了反常的蓝移现象;样品的发光强度基本是按逐渐减小趋势变化的。在60～80K之间,发光强度有少许变强。讨论了纳米硅薄膜的光致发光机理,用量子限制-发光中心模型对实验现象进行了解释。     

退火氧化生成的硅锗低维结构的光致发光性质

用激光辐照辅助电化学刻蚀的方法加工硅锗薄膜样品,30min后,在样品表面形成了多孔状的结构,该结构在724nm处有很强的光致发光(PL)峰。将该多孔状结构的样品置于高温氧化炉中进行不同时间的退火氧化处理后,发现在不同的退火氧化条件下样品的PL光谱发生了明显的变化。通过分析,作者根据量子受限(QC)和量子限制-发光中心(QCLC)模型,建立了新的量子受限-晶体与氧化物界面态综合模型来解释样品PL发光的变化。     

Guided-Wave Two-Dimensional Acousto-Optic Scanner Using Proton-Exchanged Lithium Niobate Waveguide

Two-dimensional scanning of a 0.6328 mum guided-light beam has been realized using noncolinear acousto-optic (AO) coplanar Bragg diffraction together with colinear AO guided-mode to substrate radiation-mode conversion in a Z-cut Xpropagation LiNbO3 proton-exchanged (PE) waveguide. The two surface acoustic (SAW) waves utilized are at the center frequencies of 500 and 200 MHz, propagating in the Y and X axes, respectively. Two-dimensional scanning of approximately 720 resolvable light beam spots, namely, 18 40 (horizontal vertical) scanning, has been demonstrated using a light beam of 1.0 mm aperture. The total number of resolvable beam spots can be greatly increased from 720 by simply utilizing SAW transducers of larger bandwidth and a light beam of greater aperture. It should also be possible to significantly increase the diffraction efficiency from 3 % by optimizing the parameters of the PE waveguide and the SAWs.     

Femtosecond Transform-Limited Pulse Generation by Compensating for the Linear Chirp of SPM Spectra in Dispersion Shifted Fibers

A simple technique of pulse compression, based on the linear chirp compensation of self-phase modulation (SPM) spectra in dispersion shifted fibers, is demonstrated. The optimization procedure is carried out, for a short span of a single-mode fiber, using a parabolic law, which describes the behavior of the squared output pulse width versus the pump peak power in the case of Gaussian pulses. The experimental results give a minimum pulse duration of 233 fs, which is in good agreement with the model. Shorter and coherent pulses, down to 90 fs, have been obtained by inserting an interference filter at the optical output.     

Effect ofγ-radiation on the spectral luminescence characteristics of impure cadmium tungstate crystals

Results of a study of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of cadmium tungstate crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations are presented. Spectral characteristics of the nondnnnoped crystals are briefly described. Absorption and photo and X-ray luminescence spectra of the crystals taken before and after exposure to γ-radiation (5.5·10⁴ Gy) are compared. It is found that the spectral characteristics of the crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations do not change markedly after the exposure. The relation between the type of impurity-induced defects, individual characteristics of the impurity cations, and the character of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of impure crystals is analyzed (preliminarily). Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 55–60, January–February, 1997.     

Theoretical analysis and simulation of conjugate heights for dual-conjugate AO system in lidar

A multi-conjugate adaptive optics （MCAO） can offer a possibility of widening field of view （FOV） characterized by the isoplanatic angle, and the choose of conjugate height becomes a basic problem for MCAO, which influences the size of iosplanatic angle. Considering the application of lidar, the isoplanatic angle＇s expressions of two deformable mirrors （DMs） MCAO for uplink and downlink are deduced. The effects of conjugate heights for dual-conjugate AO are thoughtfully discussed, and the isoplanatic angles are further analyzed. The results show that the isopanatic angle varies with the conjugate height and reaches the maximum as the conjugate height is at the optimal altitude. Moreover, the optimal conjugate height changes with the propagation distance.     

Quick single-photon detector with many avalanche photo diodes working on the time division

Due to the limit of response speed of the present single-photon detector, the code rate is still too low to come into practical use for the present quantum key distribution (QKD) system.A new idea is put up to design a quick single-photon detector.This quick single-photon detector is composed of a multi-port optic-fiber splitter and many avalanche photo diodes (APDs).Au of the ports with APDs work on the time division and cooperate with a logic discriminating and deciding unit driven by the clock signal.The operation frequency lies on the number N of ports, and can reach N times of the conventional single-photon detector.The single-photon prompt detection can come true for high repetition-rate pulses.The applying of this detector will largely raise the code rate of the QKD, and boost the commercial use.     

Sorting of bending magnets for the SSRF booster

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility(SSRF)booster ring,a full energy injector for the storage ring,is deigned to accelerate the electron beam energy from 150MeV to 3.5GeV that demands high extraction efficiency at the extraction energy with low beam loss rate when electrons are ramping.Closed orbit distortion(COD)caused by bending magnet field uniformity errors which affects the machine performance harmfully could be effectively reduced by bending magnet location sorting.Considering the affections of random errors in measurement,both ideal sorting and realistic sorting are studied based on measured bending magnet field uniformity errors and one reasonable combination of bending magnets which can reduce the horizontal COD by a factor of 5is given as the final installation sequence of the booster bending magnets in this paper.     

Improvement of four-wave mixing-based wavelength conversion efficiency in dispersion shifted fiber by 40-GHz clock pumping

40-GHz clock modulated signal as a pump to improve the efficiency of four-wave mixing (FWM)-based wavelength conversion in a 26.5-km dispersion shifted fiber (DSF) is investigated. The experimental results demonstrate that the conjugated FWM component has higher intensity with the clock pumping than that with the continuous-wave (CW) light pumping. The improvement of FWM-based wavelength conversion efficiency is negligible when the pump power is less than Brillouin threshold. But when the pump power is greater than Brillouin threshold, the improvement becomes significant and increases with the increment of pump power. The improvement can increase up to 9 dB if pump power reaches 17 dBm.     

Characterization of PolyA and PolyC mismatches by Raman spectroscopy

A.C mismatches are studied by Raman spectral characterization of PolyA, PolyC, and their equimolar complex in solution of 0.14 mol/L Na ,pH7.0.Experimental results show that A·C mismatches occur to be A/B (mainly A) conformers, and unlike Watson-Crick base pairing, this kind of mismatches is stabilized by only one hydrogen bond involving cytosine N4H2 and adenine N7.The formation of A·C complex makes the base stacking interactions much stronger, and conformation of the backbone more ordered, which leads to obvious Raman hypochromic effect with some shifts in corresponding bands.