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The many and diverse approaches to materials science problems have greatly enhanced our ability in recent times to engineer the physical properties of semiconductors. Silicon, of all semiconductors, underpins nearly all microelectronics today and will continue to do so for some time to come. However, in optoelectronics, the severe disadvantage of an indirect band gap has limited the application of elemental silicon. Here we review a number of diverse approaches to engineering efficient light emission in silicon nanostructures. These different approaches are placed in context and their prospects for application in silicon-based optoelectronics are assessed.
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Lockwood, D.J. (2004). Progress in Light Emission from Silicon Nanostructures. In: Faulques, E.C., Perry, D.L., Yeremenko, A.V. (eds) Spectroscopy of Emerging Materials. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 165. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2396-0_8
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