Abstract
Abstract
The role of silver localized surface plasmons (LSPs) on the luminescence of a Si(111)-(7 × 7) surface has been investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) with a silver tip at 77 K. On a bare Si(111)-(7 × 7) surface, a characteristic peak at 1.85 eV dominates the STM-induced luminescence spectrum, although the luminescence intensity is extremely weak. Once Ag atoms are deposited onto the Si surface to form islands with a few atomic layers, it is found that the intensity of the characteristic peak from the Si surface underneath the Ag islands is significantly enhanced by about one order. In addition to the luminescence from the Si surface, light emission originating from the irradiation decay of the Ag plasmons is also detected. Such great enhancement of the luminescence from the Si surface is attributed to the strong coupling between the surface states of the Si and the LSPs of the Ag islands.
Funder
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province
Jiangxi Provincial Innovation Talents of Science and Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science,General Chemistry,Bioengineering
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3 articles.
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