Ultrabroadband terahertz conductivity of Si nanocrystal films

D. G. Cooke; A. Meldrum; P. Uhd Jepsen

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Ultrabroadband terahertz conductivity of Si nanocrystal films

D. G. Cooke, A. Meldrum, P. Uhd Jepsen

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The terahertz conductivity of silicon nanoparticles embedded in glass with varying density is studied with ultra-broadband terahertz spectroscopy on picosecond time scales following fs optical excitation. The transition from relatively isolated charge carriers to densities which allow inter-particle transport is clearly observed. For the times immediately following carrier injection, we observe Drude-like long range transport that is rapidly replaced with a localized response on picosecond time scales. The localized response can be very well described by a phenomenological Drude-Smith model, verifying the applicability of this simple model to the conductivity of nanoparticle ensembles over the entire THz spectral window.

Original language	English
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	101
Issue number	21
Pages (from-to)	211107
Number of pages	4
ISSN	0003-6951
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4767145
Publication status	Published - 2012

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