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Experimental data on the photoluminescence spectra of Si nanocluster structures obtained after high-temperature annealing (1150°C) of SiO x films deposited onto Si and subsequent low-temperature annealing of the films at the temperature 450°C in different ambient are reported. It is shown that the photoluminescence intensity substantially increases after low-temperature annealing and the most-pronounced effect is observed after annealing in the oxygen-nitrogen mixture. In this case, the photoluminescence spectrum is shifted to longer wavelengths and shaped as a broad band with a peak around 800 nm. The processes responsible for the increase in the PL intensity on low-temperature annealing in the oxygen-nitrogen mixture are defined by reconstruction of the Si/SiO2 interfaces and by energy levels formed at the interfaces and involved in recombination of nonequilibrium charge carriers. The quasichemical reactions that bring about the formation of such levels involve oxygen and nitrogen atoms, and the centers, at which the reactions are initiated, are unsaturated valence bonds at the interfaces between Si nanoclusters and the SiO2 matrix.
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Original Russian Text © B.N. Romanyuk, V.P. Melnik, V.G. Popov, I.M. Khatsevich, A.S. Oberemok, 2010, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2010, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 533–537.
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Romanyuk, B.N., Melnik, V.P., Popov, V.G. et al. Effect of low-temperature annealing on photoluminescence of silicon nanocluster structures. Semiconductors 44, 514–518 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782610040184
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