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Visualization of Charge Carrier Motion in Semiconductor Nanowires with Ultrafast Pump-Probe Microscopy

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Ultrafast Phenomena XIX

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Femtosecond pump-probe microscopy is used to directly visualize the diffusion of photogenerated charge carriers in undoped silicon nanowires, as well as charge separation in a nanowire encoded with an axial p-type/intrinsic/n-type (p-i-n) junction.

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Funding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation under awards CHE-1213379 (J.M.P.) and DMR-1308695 (J.F.C.).

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Gabriel, M.M. et al. (2015). Visualization of Charge Carrier Motion in Semiconductor Nanowires with Ultrafast Pump-Probe Microscopy. In: Yamanouchi, K., Cundiff, S., de Vivie-Riedle, R., Kuwata-Gonokami, M., DiMauro, L. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XIX. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13242-6_165

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