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Unified model reveals phonon-assisted transitions dominate light emission in nanoscale silicon structures, suggesting new applications.
A unified model of phonon-assisted and zero-phonon radiative transitions in nanoscale silicon structures is presented. For characteristic sizes above 15--20 {}, phonon-assisted transitions dominate, while zero-phonon transitions, allowed due to the finite-size effect, are more important for smaller length scales. Light emission from porous silicon is analyzed on the basis of these results showing that phonon-assisted transitions should dominate the emission in the observed red band.
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