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Absence of redshift in the direct bandgap of silicon nanocrystals with reduced size

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Figure 1: Photoluminescence of bulk and nanocrystalline silicon.

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J.-W.L. was supported by the National Young 1000 Talents Plan and the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC grant 61474116). A.Z. was supported by the US Department of Energy grant DE-FG02-13ER46959 to the University of Colorado, Boulder. I.S., F.P. and J.L. acknowledge support from the Swedish Research Council (VR) through an individual contract and through a Linné grant (ADOPT), and from the Göran Gustafssons Foundation.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 912, Beijing, 100083, China

    Jun-Wei Luo & Shu-Shen Li

  2. Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China

    Jun-Wei Luo & Shu-Shen Li

  3. Materials and Nano Physics Department, KTH — Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, 16440, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ilya Sychugov, Federico Pevere & Jan Linnros

  4. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80309, Colorado, USA

    Alex Zunger

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Luo, JW., Li, SS., Sychugov, I. et al. Absence of redshift in the direct bandgap of silicon nanocrystals with reduced size. Nature Nanotech 12, 930–932 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.190

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