dc.contributor.author |
Navarro Urrios, Daniel |
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Colombano Sosa, Martin |
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Maire, Jeremie |
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Chávez Ángel, Emigdio |
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Arregui Bravo, Guillermo |
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Capuj, Nestor Eduardo |
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Devos, Arnaud |
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Griol, Amadeu. |
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Bellieres, Laurent |
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Martínez, Alejandro |
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Grigoras, Kestutis |
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Häkkinen, Teija |
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Saarilahti, Jaakko |
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Makkonen, Tapani |
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Sotomayor Torres, Clivia M. |
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Ahopelto, Jouni |
dc.date |
2020 |
dc.identifier |
https://ddd.uab.cat/record/251006 |
dc.identifier |
urn:10.1515/nanoph-2020-0489 |
dc.identifier |
urn:oai:ddd.uab.cat:251006 |
dc.identifier |
urn:scopus_id:85095602826 |
dc.identifier |
urn:articleid:21928614v9n16p4819 |
dc.identifier |
urn:icn2uab:6467399 |
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application/pdf |
dc.language |
eng |
dc.publisher |
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European Commission 713450 |
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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PGC2018-101743-B-I00 |
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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PGC2018-094490-B-C22 |
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Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad SEV-2017-0706 |
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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación RYC-2014-15392 |
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Nanophotonics ; Vol. 9, issue 16 (Nov. 2020), p. 4819-4829 |
dc.rights |
open access |
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dc.rights |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
dc.subject |
Annealing |
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Cavity optomechanics |
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Nanocrystalline silicon |
dc.title |
Properties of nanocrystalline silicon probed by optomechanics |
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Article |
dc.description.abstract |
Nanocrystalline materials exhibit properties that can differ substantially from those of their single crystal counterparts. As such, they provide ways to enhance and optimize their functionality for devices and applications. Here, we report on the optical, mechanical and thermal properties of nanocrystalline silicon probed by means of optomechanical nanobeams to extract information of the dynamics of optical absorption, mechanical losses, heat generation and dissipation. The optomechanical nanobeams are fabricated using nanocrystalline films prepared by annealing amorphous silicon layers at different temperatures. The resulting crystallite sizes and the stress in the films can be controlled by the annealing temperature and time and, consequently, the properties of the films can be tuned relatively freely, as demonstrated here by means of electron microscopy and Raman scattering. We show that the nanocrystallite size and the volume fraction of the grain boundaries play a key role in the dissipation rates through nonlinear optical and thermal processes. Promising optical (13,000) and mechanical (1700) quality factors were found in the optomechanical cavity realized in the nanocrystalline Si resulting from annealing at 950°C. The enhanced absorption and recombination rates via the intragap states and the reduced thermal conductivity boost the potential to exploit these nonlinear effects in applications including Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), phonon lasing and chaos-based devices. |