Lighting up silicon nanoparticles with Mie resonances

Chengyun Zhang; Yi Xu; Jin Liu; Juntao Li; Jin Xiang; Hui Li; Jinxiang Li; Qiaofeng Dai; Sheng Lan; Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05394-z

Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Lighting up silicon nanoparticles with Mie resonances

Chengyun Zhang,
Yi Xu,
Jin Liu,
Juntao Li,
Jin Xiang,
Hui Li,
Jinxiang Li,
Qiaofeng Dai,
Sheng Lan,
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

Affiliations

Chengyun Zhang: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University
Yi Xu: Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University
Jin Liu: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-Sen University
Juntao Li: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-Sen University
Jin Xiang: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University
Hui Li: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University
Jinxiang Li: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University
Qiaofeng Dai: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University
Sheng Lan: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko: School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05394-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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As an indirect semiconductor, silicon shows notoriously inefficient luminescence. Here, the authors utilize the Mie resonances in silicon nanoparticles to demonstrate visible white-light emission, both from free-standing spheres and particles etched on a silicon-on-insulator substrate.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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