Colloidal silicon quantum dots: from preparation to the modification of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) for bio-applications

X Cheng, SB Lowe, PJ Reece… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Concerns over possible toxicities of conventional metal-containing quantum dots have
inspired growing research interests in colloidal silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs), or silicon …

Silicon nanocrystals: unfading silicon materials for optoelectronics

Z Ni, S Zhou, S Zhao, W Peng, D Yang, X Pi - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
As the most fundamental material for microelectronics, silicon (Si) has bourgeoned in the
past more than half a century. However, given the indirect bandgap of Si, the use of Si in …

Fast-response and flexible nanocrystal-based humidity sensor for monitoring human respiration and water evaporation on skin

S Kano, K Kim, M Fujii - ACS sensors, 2017 - ACS Publications
We develop a fast-response and flexible nanocrystal-based humidity sensor for real-time
monitoring of human activity: respiration and water evaporation on skin. A silicon …

Comparative study on the localized surface plasmon resonance of boron-and phosphorus-doped silicon nanocrystals

S Zhou, X Pi, Z Ni, Y Ding, Y Jiang, C Jin, C Delerue… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of doped Si nanocrystals (NCs) is critical to
the development of Si-based plasmonics. We now experimentally show that LSPR can be …

Codoping n-and p-type impurities in colloidal silicon nanocrystals: Controlling luminescence energy from below bulk band gap to visible range

H Sugimoto, M Fujii, K Imakita, S Hayashi… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present a novel synthesis of ligand-free colloidal silicon nanocrystals (Si-NCs) that
exhibits efficient photoluminescence (PL) in a wide energy range (0.85–1.8 eV) overcoming …

Broadband dielectric–metal hybrid nanoantenna: Silicon nanoparticle on a mirror

H Sugimoto, M Fujii - Acs Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
We developed a broadband dielectric–metal hybrid nanogap resonator composed of a
silicon nanoparticle (Si NP) and gold (Au) flat surface. We fabricate the nanogap resonator …

Doping silicon nanocrystals and quantum dots

BL Oliva-Chatelain, TM Ticich, AR Barron - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to incorporate a dopant element into silicon nanocrystals (NC) and quantum dots
(QD) is one of the key technical challenges for the use of these materials in a number of …

Ligand-free, colloidal, and plasmonic silicon nanocrystals heavily doped with boron

S Zhou, Z Ni, Y Ding, M Sugaya, X Pi, T Nozaki - Acs Photonics, 2016 - ACS Publications
Colloidal heavily doped silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs) exhibiting tunable localized surface
plasmon resonance (LSPR) are of great interest in cost-effective, solution-processed …

All-inorganic colloidal silicon nanocrystals—surface modification by boron and phosphorus co-doping

M Fujii, H Sugimoto, K Imakita - Nanotechnology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Si nanocrystals (Si-NCs) with extremely heavily B-and P-doped shells are
developed and their structural and optical properties are studied. Unlike conventional Si …

Size-dependence of acceptor and donor levels of boron and phosphorus codoped colloidal silicon nanocrystals

Y Hori, S Kano, H Sugimoto, K Imakita, M Fujii - Nano Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Size dependence of the boron (B) acceptor and phosphorus (P) donor levels of silicon (Si)
nanocrystals (NCs) measured from the vacuum level was obtained in a very wide size range …