%0 Journal Article
%@ 0021-8979
%A Kenyon, AJ
%A Chryssou, CE
%A Pitt, CW
%A Shimizu-Iwayama, T
%A Hole, DE
%A Sharma, N
%A Humphreys, CJ
%D 2002
%F discovery:149703
%I AMER INST PHYSICS
%J Journal of Applied Physics
%K SI NANOCRYSTALS, RICH SILICA, THIN-FILMS, OPTICAL-PROPERTIES, ENERGY-TRANSFER, VISIBLE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE, POROUS SILICON, ER3+, ELECTROLUMINESCENCE, SIO2-FILMS
%N 1
%P 367 - 374
%T Luminescence from erbium-doped silicon nanocrystals in silica: Excitation mechanisms
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/149703/
%V 91
%X We develop a model for the excitation of erbium ions in erbium-doped silicon nanocrystals via coupling from confined excitons generated within the silicon nanoclusters. The model provides a phenomenological picture of the exchange mechanism and allows us to evaluate an effective absorption cross section for erbium of up to 7.3x10(-17) cm(2): four orders of magnitude higher than in stoichiometric silica. We address the origin of the 1.6 eV emission band associated with the silicon nanoclusters and determine absorption cross sections and excitonic lifetimes for nanoclusters in silica which are of the order of 1.02x10(-16) cm(2) and 20-100 mus, respectively. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
%Z Copyright 2002 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.  The following article appeared in Kenyon, AJ and Chryssou, CE and Pitt, CW and Shimizu-Iwayama, T and Hole, DE and Sharma, N and Humphreys, CJ (2002) Luminescence from erbium-doped silicon nanocrystals in silica: Excitation mechanisms. Journal of Applied Physics, 91 (1) 367 - 374 and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?jap/91/00367