Size and Shape Controlled Semiconductor Nanocrystals Synthesized by RF-Sputtering Techniques for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications

What is it about?

Shrinking the size of semiconductor crystals such as Silicon or Germanium alters their material properties. Reaching the range of nanocrystals, i.e. crystals just a few nanometers small, opens unprecedented possibilities for electronic and optoelectronic devices, particularly when it is possible to prepare nanocrystals with a well-defined size. We summarize our recent work on the size-controlled preparation of such nanocrystals by the sputtering technique and show experimental results encouraging their use in more resistant non-volatile memory devices and for more efficient optical data transmission.

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