多孔硅的制备条件对其光致发光特性的影响

不同的实验条件下制备的多孔硅的光致发光(PL)特性是不同的,这是许多研究产生分歧的主要原因。对比分析了阳极氧化电流密度、阳极氧化时间、溶液浓度以及自然氧化时间对多孔硅光致发光光谱的影响。认为在一定的范围内,多孔硅的发光峰位会随电流密度的增大而蓝移,要获得较强的发光,需要选择合适的电流密度;随着腐蚀时间的延长,多孔硅的发光峰位也发生蓝移。当HF酸的浓度较小时,峰位随浓度的增大表现为向低能移动;而当HF酸的浓度较大时,峰位随浓度的增大则表现为移向高能。多孔硅在空气中自然氧化,其发光峰位发生蓝移,而发射强度随放置时间的延长而降低。并用量子限制模型和发光中心模型对实验结果进行解释。     

稀土掺杂硅基薄膜的高效发光特性

测量了在不同离子注入剂量,不同退火条件下的Nd注入Si基晶片室温光致发光谱,结果表明它们均具有蓝、紫发光峰,且发光稳定。在一定范围内发光效率随掺杂浓度的增加而增大,随退火条件的不同而改变。在实验室条件下,对掺杂硅片和单晶硅片进行电化学腐蚀制成多孔硅样片,同时用适当配比的HNO3对以单晶硅为基底的多孔硅进行处理,测试了腐蚀后各类样品的光致发光（PL）谱。发现掺稀土Nd的多孔硅和用HNO3处理的多孔硅的发光效率有显著提高。     

水热腐蚀时间对铁钝化多孔硅表面形貌和光致发光的影响

采用水热腐蚀法制备了4个腐蚀时间不同的铁钝化多孔硅样品,铁钝化多孔硅样品表面呈海绵结构,随着腐蚀时间增加,样品表面的平整度下降,腐蚀孔尺寸差别有增大的趋势。在250nm光激发下,样品发光峰位于620nm附近,半峰全宽约130nm。腐蚀时间从10min增加到40min,4个样品的发光峰并未出现定向的红移或蓝移。结合样品傅里叶变换红外吸收光谱的结果,铁钝化多孔硅的光致发光行为可归因于量子限制-发光中心作用,相应的辐射复合发光中心为非桥氧空穴。     

n型多孔硅光致发光研究

对在无光照条件下,电化学阳极腐蚀方法制备的n型多孔硅进行了光致发光性能研究.在325nm的激发光照射下,多孔硅样品的发光峰在620nm处,其橙红色的发光肉眼可见,并随阳极电流密度与腐蚀时间乘积的增加.先增强,后减弱.其发光峰位置与量子限制效应、表面态及缺陷态有关,发光强度与样品表面深度较浅孔洞所占的面积比成正比.     

多孔硅的光致发光和红外吸收光谱研究

用电化学腐蚀法制备出多孔硅系列样品.室温下具有明亮可见的光致发光.增大电解电流或延长腐蚀时间,发光光谱明显地“蓝移”;提高样品测量温度,发光光谱也明显地“蓝移”。红外吸收光谱表明多孔硅中除了硅丝骨架以外,还含有H、F及O等元素,随着腐蚀时间的增加,F和O原子的相对含量增加.实验结果表明,多孔硅在可见光区的发光现象是一种量子尺寸效应.     

多孔硅光致发光的温度效应研究

通过对多孔硅光致发光峰随测量温度变化的研究，发现随测量温度的下降，光致发光峰位有两种截然不同的移动方向：发光峰中心波长较长的样品，主峰向低能方向移动(即红移)；而发光峰位波长较短的样品则向高能方向移动(即蓝移).根据多孔硅光致发光峰的温度效应，定性地给出了发光效率随波长变化的模拟曲线，并由此能较好地解释多孔硅光致发光峰位随温度变化而移动的实验现象. 关键词：     

多孔硅光致发光峰半峰全宽的压缩

硅发光对于在单一硅片上实现光电集成是至关重要的.目前已有的使硅产生发光的方法有:掺杂深能级杂质、掺稀土离子、多孔硅、纳米硅以及Si/SiO₂超晶格.声空化所引发的特殊的物理、化学环境为制备光致发光多孔硅薄膜提供了一条重要的途径.实验表明,声化学处理对于改善多孔硅的微结构,提高发光效率和发光稳定性都是一项非常有效的技术.超声波加强阳极电化学腐蚀制备发光多孔硅薄膜,比目前通用的常规方法制备的样品显示出更优良的性质.这种超声波的化学效应源于声空化,即腐蚀液中气泡的形成、生长和急剧崩溃.在多孔硅的腐蚀过程中,由于超声波的作用增加了孔中氢气泡的逸出比率和塌缩,有利于孔沿垂直方向的腐蚀,使多孔硅光致发光峰的半峰全宽压缩到了3.8nm.     

铜掺杂多孔硅的光致荧光猝灭

采用浸泡镀敷的方法在多孔硅表面形成了一铜镀层,通过对掺铜前后多孔硅的光致发光(PL)谱和傅里叶变换红外(FTIR)吸收光谱的研究,讨论了铜在多孔硅表面的吸附对其光致发光的影响。实验表明,掺铜对多孔硅的光致发光具有明显的猝灭效应,并使多孔硅的发光峰位蓝移。由于多孔硅表面铜的吸附使硅-氢键明显减少,而铜原子和硅的悬挂键成键会形成新的非辐射复合中心,从而使多孔硅的光致发光强度衰减。且浸泡溶液的浓度越高,这种猝灭效应越明显。而多孔硅发光峰位的蓝移,则是由于在发生金属淀积的同时伴随着多孔硅表面Si的氧化过程(纳米Si氧化为SiO2)的缘故。     

多孔硅光致发光的非线性光学特性

采用电化学腐蚀法制备多孔硅（ＰＳ）,测量了多孔硅在近红外光（８００ｎｍ）激光下的光致发光（ＰＬ）谱和光致发光激光（ＰＬＥ）谱;结果表明多孔硅具有良好的上转换荧光特性光学特性并存存放时间 长,在一定期内峰值强度有明显的增。这种非线性光学响应的增强,被认为与空间量子限制效应作用下局域束缚关,光致发光谱的多峰结构表明多孔硅中存在多种发光中心。用量子限制／发光中心模型可以解释本实验结果。     

自然氧化引起的多孔硅光致发光光谱移动问题

多孔硅发光是激发电子通过表面态间接的复合过程。自然氧化引入新的表面态，改变了表面态的分布，从而引起了多孔硅光致发光光谱的移动。 关键词：     

A novel method of fabricating porous silicon material: ultrasonically enhanced anodic electrochemical etching

Ultrasonically enhanced anodic electrochemical etching is developed to fabricate luminescent porous silicon (PS) material. The samples prepared by the new etching method exhibit superior characteristics to those prepared by conventional direct current etching. By applying ultrasonically enhanced etching, PS microcavities with much higher quality factors can be fabricated. The improved quality induced by ultrasonic etching can be ascribed to increased rates of escape of hydrogen bubbles and other etched chemical species from the porous silicon pillars' surface. This process will cause the reaction between the etchant and the silicon wafer to proceed more rapidly along the vertical direction in the silicon pores than laterally.     

多孔硅的微结构与发光特性研究

利用原子力显微镜（AFM）和光致荧光（PL）光谱对一系列直流腐蚀和脉冲腐蚀的多孔硅的微结构及发光特性进行了对比研究．表面和侧面的AFM结果表明，多孔硅表面呈“小山”状，有许多小的、突出的硅颗粒．在相同的腐蚀条件（等效）下，脉冲腐蚀的样品表面Si颗粒更加尖锐、突出，侧面的线状结构更明显，多孔硅层更厚．对应的PL谱，脉冲腐蚀的样品发光更强．量子限制效应的理论可以比较成功地解释这个结果 关键词：     

Effect of Au film and absorption groups on minority carrier life of porous silicon

In this paper, the samples were prepared with or without metal assistance in different time. The effect of Au film and absorption groups on minority carrier life of porous silicon was studied by using μ-PCD measurements, and the result was further proved by FTIR spectra and SEM images. The results were showed that the existed hydrogen-related groups on the surface of porous silicon would decrease the minority carrier life and the grid Au film also can decrease the minority carrier life. The minority carrier life may be controlled by the more effective factor, metal elements or absorption groups.     

Effect of surface modification by thermally oxidization and HF etching on UV photoluminescence emission of porous silicon

Photoluminescence of porous silicon (PS) is instable due perhaps to the nanostructure modification in air. The controllable structure modification processes on the as-prepared PS were conducted by thermal oxidization and/or HF etching. The PL spectra taken from thermally oxidized PS showed a stable photoluminescence emission of 355 nm. The photoluminescence emission taken from both of PS and oxidized porous silicon (OPS) samples etched with HF were instable, which can be reversibly recovered by the HF etching procedure. The mechanism of UV photoluminescence is discussed and attributed to the transformation of luminescence centers from oxygen deficient defects to the oxygen excess defects in the thermal oxidized PS sample and surface absorbed silanol groups on PS samples during the chemical etched procedure.     

Characterization of nanostructured CuO–porous silicon matrix formed on copper-coated silicon substrate via electrochemical etching

A pulsed anodic etching method has been utilized for nanostructuring of a copper-coated p-type (100) silicon substrate, using HF-based solution as electrolyte. Scanning electron microscopy reveals the formation of a nanostructured matrix that consists of island-like textures with nanosize grains grown onto fiber-like columnar structures separated with etch pits of grooved porous structures. Spatial micro-Raman scattering analysis indicates that the island-like texture is composed of single-phase cupric oxide (CuO) nanocrystals, while the grooved porous structure is barely related to formation of porous silicon (PS). X-ray diffraction shows that both the grown CuO nanostructures and the etched silicon layer have the same preferred (220) orientation. Chemical composition obtained by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic (XPS) analysis confirms the presence of the single-phase CuO on the surface of the patterned CuO–PS matrix. As compared to PS formed on the bare silicon substrate, the room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) from the CuO–PS matrix exhibits an additional weak ‘blue’ PL band as well as a blue shift in the PL band of PS (S-band). This has been revealed from XPS analysis to be associated with the enhancement in the SiO₂ content as well as formation of the carbonyl group on the surface in the case of the CuO–PS matrix.     

金刚石膜/多孔硅复合材料的性能表征

提出了一种新颖的多孔硅表面钝化技术,即采用微波等离子体辅助的化学气相沉积（MPCVD）方法在多孔硅上沉积金刚石薄膜。采用原子力显微镜（AFM）、扫描电子显微镜（SEM）、X射线衍射仪（XRD）、拉曼光 谱仪和荧光分光度计对多孔硅及金刚石膜的表面形貌、结构和发光特性进行了表征。结果表明采用微波等离子体化学气相沉积法可在多孔硅基片上形成均匀、致密、性能稳定且对可见光具有全透性的金刚石膜。金刚石膜与多孔硅的复合,大大稳定了多孔硅的发光波长和强度,同时增强了多孔硅的机械强度。     

Annealing and amorphous silicon passivation of porous silicon with blue light emission

The photoluminescence (PL) of the annealed and amorphous silicon passivated porous silicon with blue emission has been investigated. The N-type and P-type porous silicon fabricated by electrochemical etching was annealed in the temperature range of 700-900 °C, and was coated with amorphous silicon formed in a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process. After annealing, the variation of PL intensity of N-type porous silicon was different from that of P-type porous silicon, depending on their structure. It was also found that during annealing at 900 °C, the coated amorphous silicon crystallized into polycrystalline silicon, which passivated the irradiative centers on the surface of porous silicon so as to increase the intensity of the blue emission.     

Growth of ZnO Nanostructures on Porous Silicon and Oxidized Porous Silicon Substrates

We have investigated an oxidation of substrate effect on structural morphology of zinc oxide (ZnO) rods. ZnO rods are grown on porous silicon (PS) and on thermally oxidized porous silicon substrates by carbothermal reduction of ZnO powder through chemical vapour transport and condensation. Porous silicon is fabricated by electrochemical etching of silicon in hydrofluoric acid solution. The effects of substrates on morphology and structure of ZnO nanostructures have been studied. The morphology of substrates is studied by atomic force microscopy in contact mode. The texture coefficient of each sample is calculated from X-ray diffraction data that demonstrate random orientation of ZnO rods on oxidized porous silicon substrate. The morphology of structures is investigated by scanning electron microscopy that confirms the surface roughness tends to increase the growth rate of ZnO rods on oxidized PS compared with porous silicon substrate. A green emission has been observed in ZnO structures grown on oxidized PS substrates by photoluminescence measurements.     

Structural and optical properties of thin films porous amorphous silicon carbide formed by Ag-assisted photochemical etching

In this work, we present the formation of porous layers on hydrogenated amorphous SiC (a-SiC: H) by Ag-assisted photochemical etching using HF/K₂S₂O₈ solution under UV illumination at 254 nm wavelength. The amorphous films a-SiC: H were elaborated by d.c. magnetron sputtering using a hot pressed polycrystalline 6H-SiC target. Because of the high resistivity of the SiC layer, around 1.6 MΩ cm and in order to facilitate the chemical etching, a thin metallic film of high purity silver (Ag) has been deposited under vacuum onto the thin a-SiC: H layer. The etched surface was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, secondary ion mass spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy and photoluminescence. The results show that the morphology of etched a-SiC: H surface evolves with etching time. For an etching time of 20 min the surface presents a hemispherical crater, indicating that the porous SiC layer is perforated. Photoluminescence characterization of etched a-SiC: H samples for 20 min shows a high and an intense blue PL, whereas it has been shown that the PL decreases for higher etching time. Finally, a dissolution mechanism of the silicon carbide in 1HF/1K₂S₂O₈ solution has been proposed.