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Degradation of Assembled Silicon Nanostructured Thin Films: a Theoretical and Experimental Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Valeria Bertani ,
Luisa D'Urso ,
Alfio Alessandro Scalisi ,
Giuseppe Compagnini  and
Orazio Puglisi
Valeria Bertani
Affiliation:
valeriabertani@yahoo.it, Università di Catania, Scienze Chimiche, Viale A. Doria, 6, Catania, N/A, 95125, Italy, +39 0957385102, +39 095580138
Luisa D'Urso
Affiliation:
ldurso@unict.it, Università di Catania, Scienze Chimiche, Italy
Alfio Alessandro Scalisi
Affiliation:
ascalisi@unict.it, Università di Catania, Scienze Chimiche, Italy
Giuseppe Compagnini
Affiliation:
gcompagnini@unict.it, Università di Catania, Scienze Chimiche, Italy
Orazio Puglisi
Affiliation:
opuglisi@unict.it, Università di Catania, Scienze Chimiche, Italy
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Abstract

The study of the structures and properties of small elemental clusters has been an extremely active area of current research, due to the peculiar behavior of these species halfway between that of single atoms and of the bulk phase. In this work silicon nanoclusters are generated by ablation of a high purity polycrystalline rod with a pulsed laser vaporization source and then deposited on a support. Their structure is studied both in the gas phase by means of Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry and in the solid phase through in situ Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy. The spectra reveal that the as deposited clusters are hydrogenated with negligible amount of oxide. Degradation of silicon nanoclusters has been studied after gas exposure. In the gas of air a consistent modification was observed, leading to a near-infrared luminescent silicon nanoparticles. In the second part of the work, density functional theory is applied to investigate the geometrical structure of silicon clusters and their interaction, in term of structure and energy, with different gases. The calculations were performed with the Gaussian 03 program suite, adopting the B3LYP functional to calculate the exchange and correlation energy. Si8 has been chosen as model cluster to study the degradation of silicon clusters both kinetically and thermodynamically, in order to explain the experimental evidences. Experimental and calculated infrared spectra are compared.

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nanostructureSioxidation
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 887: Symposium Q – Degradation Processes in Nanostructured Materials , 2005 , 0887-Q06-04
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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