He, Wei, Wu, Rihan, Yurkevich, Igor V., Canham, Leigh T. and Kaplan, Andrey (2018). Reconstructing charge-carrier dynamics in porous silicon membranes from time-resolved interferometric measurements. Scientific Reports, 8 (1),
Abstract
We performed interferometric time-resolved simultaneous reflectance and transmittance measurements to investigate the carrier dynamics in pump-probe experiments on thin porous silicon membranes. The experimental data was analysed by using a method built on the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation and the Drude model, allowing us to reconstruct the excited carriers’ non-uniform distribution in space and its evolution in time. The analysis revealed that the carrier dynamics in porous silicon, with ~50% porosity and native oxide chemistry, is governed by the Shockley-Read-Hall recombination process with a characteristic time constant of 375 picoseconds, whereas diffusion makes an insignificant contribution as it is suppressed by the high rate of scattering.
| Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35210-z |
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| Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI) Aston University (General) |
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| Publication ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2024 08:09 |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2018 11:14 |
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| Published Date: | 2018-11-21 |
| Accepted Date: | 2018-10-26 |
| Authors: |
He, Wei
Wu, Rihan Yurkevich, Igor V. ( 
0000-0003-1447-8913)
Canham, Leigh T. Kaplan, Andrey |
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