Study of porous silicon structure by Raman scattering

In this paper, the effect of etching time on light emitting porous silicon has been studied by using Raman scattering. Enhancement of Raman intensity by increasing the porosity is observed. Also there is a red shift, about 4 cm⁻¹, from the Raman peak of crystalline silicon to that of porous silicon. The phonon confinement model suggests the existence of spherical nanocrystalline silicon with diameter around 7 nm. But SEM images show that the samples have a sheetlike structure that confines phonons in one dimension. This should not cause any shift in their Raman spectra. It is suggested that the observed Raman peak shift is due to the spherical nanocrystals on the surface of these sheets.     

多孔硅拉曼光谱的研究

采用电化学腐蚀的方法制备多孔硅。对不同实验条件下所得到的多孔硅的拉曼光谱进行了分析，确认多孔硅是具有纳米晶结构特征的材料，肯定了量子限制效应在多孔硅光致发光中的作用。     

拉曼光谱法计算多孔硅样品的温度

利用457.5nm固体激光器作为激发光源，得到了在不同功率激发下的多孔硅样品的拉曼光谱以及一些谱峰参数随功率的变化关系. 在从前的理论研究中，认为是由于激光功率的增大导致样品局域温度升高，从而使样品局域粒径变小，并由此引起了一系列谱峰参数的变化. 分别由520cm^-1和300cm^-1附近得到的随功率变化的拉曼谱图，详细讨论并计算了激光功率对多孔硅样品局域温度的定量影响，为拉曼光谱用于样品温度的定量测量奠定了实验基础. 关键词： 拉曼光谱 多孔硅 激光功率 样品温度     

Fano resonance in heavily doped porous silicon

Unexpectedly, the Fano resonance caused by the interference of continuum electron excitations with the longitudinal optical (LO) phonons was observed in random porous Si by Raman scattering. The analysis of the experimental data shows that the electron states trapped at the Si SiO₂ interface dominate in the observed Raman scattering. The gap energy associated with the interface states was determined. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

光声谱研究多孔碳化硅的能带特性

报道了用UV光照射和不用UV光照射条件下形成的p型α PSC以及原始SiC的光声光谱（PAS）.从光声Rosenwaig Gersho理论出发，计算出多孔SiC的吸收系数与能量的关系，得到多孔SiC的能隙低于原始SiC的能隙，并深入分析了能隙的变化原因，同时，对吸收边附近的吸收情况进行了讨论. 关键词： 光声光谱 多孔碳化硅 能隙     

Noise in porous silicon structures in air and in conditions of gas adsorption

Low-frequency noise, in the range 1–500 Hz, is measured at room temperature in samples of Au/PS/SCS/Al structure with a layer of porous silicon. Numerical values of the Hooge parameter α_H are estimated and the dependence of α_H on the composition of the gaseous environment, where the sample is placed, is determined. Possible reasons of observed high values of α_H for the samples in air and of the increase in α_H in conditions of gas adsorption are discussed. Introducing of carbon oxide in air changes the shape of spectrum.     

Highly reproducible tip‐enhanced Raman scattering using an oxidized and metallized silicon cantilever tip as a tool for everyone

We have successfully improved the reproducibility of tip‐enhancement effect on metallized silicon cantilever tips for characterization of carbon nanotubes. Plasmon resonance tuning relative to an excitation wavelength is crucial for efficient tip‐enhancement, which is accomplished by thermal oxidization and subsequent metallization of commercial silicon tips. Because of the change of the refractive index of the tip from silicon to silicon dioxide, the plasmon resonance of the silver‐coated tip is blue‐shifted showing an enormous enhancement at 532 nm excitation. Highly reproducible tips exhibit an enhancement factor of >100 with a 100% yield. Because the tips are fabricated from commercially available silicon cantilever tips in a simple and robust way, our approach provides an important step of ‘tip‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy for everyone’. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Characterization of porous materials by small-angle scattering

Characterization of porous materials by small-angle scattering has been extensively pursued for several years now as the pores are often of mesoscopic size and compatible with the length scale accessible by the technique using both neutrons and X-rays as probing radiation. With the availability of ultra small-angle scattering instruments, one can investigate porous materials in the sub-micron length scale. Because of the increased accessible length scale vis-a-vis the multiple scattering effect, conventional data analysis procedures based on single scattering approximation quite often fail. The limitation of conventional data analysis procedures is also pronounced in the case of thick samples and long wavelength of the probing radiation. Effect of multiple scattering is manifested by broadening the scattering profile. Sample thickness for some technologically important materials is often significantly high, as the experimental samples have to replicate all its essential properties in the bulk material. Larger wavelength of the probing radiation is used in some cases to access large length scale and also to minimize the effect of double Bragg reflections.     

Investigation of Porous Silicon Wetting by Raman Scattering

Wetting phenomena in porous silicon layers are experimentally investigated by Raman scattering. The experimental results show a reversible blue-shift of Raman spectra of wetted porous silicon layers with respect to the unperturbed layers. We ascribe the shift to a compressive stress due to the increased lattice mismatch between the porous silicon layer and the bulk silicon substrate in wetting conditions.     

Application of surface‐enhanced Raman scattering in cell analysis

In surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), the scattered intensity is drastically increased due to a resonant interaction with surface plasmons of coin metals. SERS is a nondestructive spectroscopic method applied also to biomedical samples. It inherits the advantages of normal Raman spectroscopy and at the same time overcomes the inherent low sensitivity problem. These properties endow SERS with exciting opportunities to be a successful analytical tool for cell analysis. SERS can be used to detect only molecules located on or close to the metallic nanostructures which can support surface plasmon resonances for the enhancement of the Raman signals. Therefore, these metallic nanostructures play a key role in the application of SERS in cell analysis. By incorporating the SERS substrates into the biosamples, molecular structural probing and cellular imaging become possible. In the past decade, analysts worldwide have developed many schemes to study the chemical changes and component distribution in cells by using SERS. In this paper, the application of SERS in cell analysis is reviewed. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

水中受激拉曼散射的能量增强及受激布里渊散射的光学抑制

为提高液体介质中受激拉曼散射的输出能量,提出了通过温度调控来抑制受激布里渊散射的方法,设计了532 nm多纵模宽带脉冲激光泵浦的受激拉曼散射发生系统,测量了不同温度下水中前向受激拉曼散射及后向受激布里渊散射的输出能量,分析了水温、泵浦激光线宽及热散焦效应对受激拉曼散射输出能量影响的物理机制.实验结果表明:通过降低水温可实现对受激布里渊散射过程的有效抑制,同时减小热散焦效应带来的光束畸变,从而有效提高受激拉曼散射的输出能量.研究结果对液体介质中的受激拉曼散射多波长转换具有重要意义.     

Deposition of Ag nanoparticles on porous anodic alumina for surface enhanced Raman scattering substrate

Ag nanoparticles were exclusively deposited inside the pores of the porous anodic alumina (PAA) template through the deposition cycle including the incubation and the subsequent reduction of Ag(NH₃) . Both the density and size of the produced Ag nanoparticles increased as the deposition cycle number increased. A field‐emission scanning electron microscopeand an ultraviolet‐visible spectrometer were applied, respectively, to study the morphology and the extinction spectra of the Ag nanoparticles. The optimum deposition number was found from the scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis. Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of p‐aminothiophenol recorded on the Ag–PAA substrates prepared under increasing number of deposition cycles, manifested an enlarging trend of peak intensity. A point‐by‐point SERS mapping of p‐aminothiophenol on the Ag–PAA substrate was acquired to characterise the homogeneity of the substrate. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

分子间费米共振增强二元溶液体系的受激拉曼散射研究

研究了液芯光纤内不同体积比的甲苯和间二甲苯二元混合溶液的受激拉曼散射.实验结果表明:在不同的体积比之下二元溶液的环呼吸振动模式1002 cm^-1,甲基的CH伸缩振动模式2920 cm^-1 以及芳香环CH对称伸缩振动模式3058 cm^-1的拉曼带同时产生受激拉曼辐射,并且2920 cm^-1 和 3058 cm^-1 拉曼带的一阶受激拉曼散射阈值要低于1002 cm^-1拉曼带的二阶 关键词： 分子间费米共振 二元溶液 受激拉曼散射 拉曼散射截面     

Substrate-induced stress in silicon nanocrystal/SiO2 multilayer structures

Magnetoresistance in superconducting Nb films perforated with rectangular arrays of antidots (holes) is investigated at various temperatures and currents. Normally, the magnetoresistance increases with the increasing magnetic field. In this paper, we report a reverse behavior in a certain range of high fields after vortex reconfiguration transition, where the resistances at non-matching fields are smaller than those in the low field regime. This phenomenon is due to a strong caging effect, in which the interstitial vortices are trapped among the pinned multiquanta vortices. This effect is temperature and current dependent.     

Stimulated Raman scattering and spontaneous Raman solitons in ammonia

In this study we report the first observation of spontaneous Raman solitons in stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) by the gas NH₃. The scattered radiation is called Stokes radiation. Raman solitons are of considerable interest, because their existence can be explained by quantum-mechanical fluctuations of the electromagnetic field in vacuum. We have observed spontaneous Raman solitons in a forward SRS configuration for two different molecular transitions of NH₃, the laser emissions at 58 μm and 72.6 μm wavelength. These are optically pumped by 10 μm CO₂-laser pulses with a duration of 100 ns and an energy of 150 mJ. Spontaneous Raman solitons are short spikes in the pump pulse which occur during its depletion. Their origin is the rapid π phase change of the Stokes seed. In contrast to other laboratories we have used single-pass cells. Thus, we have succeeded in observing multiple spontaneous Raman solitons during one pump pulse. Previous experiments with multi-pass cells never showed multiple solitons. Since multiple spontaneous Raman solitons have already been reported in an earlier experiment with a single-pass cell filled with hydrogen at high pressure, we conclude that such multiple Raman solitons can be observed mainly in this type of gas cell. Subsequently, we have performed statistical measurements on the delay time and the height of the spontaneous Raman solitons in the depleted pump pulse for the 58 μm-NH₃ emission. We have compared these statistics with theory and equivalent experimental results of other laboratories. They are in good agreement with the assumption that quantum-mechanical fluctuations are the origin of spontaneous Raman solitons. The most recent theories postulate that the origin of the formation of spontaneous Raman solitons can be explained by the rapid π phase change of the Stokes seed as well as that of the laser or polarization wave. Therefore, we have determined the phase of the spontaneous Raman solitons relative to the depleted pump pulse. Although, such changes of sign of the relative phase have already been observed in an earlier SRS experiment with hydrogen at high pressure, we did not detect any in our experiment. Therefore, we conclude that in this experiment the π phase change occurs in the Stokes or polarization wave.     

多孔硅量子点中的电子局域态

经过激光辐照和高温退火加工能够生成多孔硅样品,在650—780 nm处检测到很强的光致荧光（PL）峰,并且有明显的钉扎和增强效应.实验表明,这种PL发光的强度与样品受辐照和退火的时间短密切相关.通过第一性原理模拟计算发现,样品表面用SiO 双键和Si—O—Si桥键钝化,能隙中会出现电子局域态.激光辐照和高温退火的时间长短决定了样品表面SiO双键和Si—O—Si桥键的密度,而该密度正是影响多孔硅量子点中电子局域态生成的关键. 关键词： 多孔硅量子点 硅氧钝化键 电子局域态     

量子受限效应和对称性效应对硅光子晶体禁带的影响

光子晶体不仅可以用来调控自发辐射, 还可以用来控制光的传输和局域. 采用平面波展开法进行模拟计算, 分析硅背景下的二维正方、三角晶格光子晶体散射基元的形状和空间取向对光子禁带的影响. 计算结果表明: 对称性和量子受限效应之间的竞争是导致光子晶体禁带宽度发生变化的原因.     

二维正方格子磁性光子晶体的带隙结构

采用平面波展开的方法计算了正方格子二维磁性光子晶体(MPC)的光子带隙结构.散射子的形状分别为：长方形，正方形，六角形和圆形.通过调节磁导率，填充率和散射子的旋转角度，找到了MPC各种结构的最大的绝对带隙宽高比ω_R.研究发现：随着磁导率的增加，MPC绝对带隙中心频率ω_g单调减小，绝对带隙宽度Δω和其宽高比ω_R可能不同时达到最大值.而随着填充率或者散射子旋转角的增加，基本不改变ω_g的大小，各种结构的Δω和ω_R同时达到最大值. 关键词： 磁性光子晶体 光子带隙结构     

n-SiC的电子拉曼散射及二级拉曼谱研究

研究了利用离子注入法得到的掺氮n-SiC拉曼光谱. 理论线形分析表明,与4H-SiC相比,6H-SiC中LO声子等离子体激元耦合模(LOPC模)拉曼位移随自由载流子浓度变化较小. 5145nm激发光下得到的电子拉曼散射光谱表明,k位处由1s(A₁)到1s(E)的能谷轨道跃迁带来的拉曼谱6H-SiC中有四条,4H-SiC中有二条;高频6303及635cm^-1处观察到的谱线被认为与深能级缺陷有关. 最后,利用纤锌矿型结构二级拉曼散射选择定则指认了6 关键词： 碳化硅 电子拉曼散射 轨道能谷分裂 倍频谱