Optical characterization of patterned nanowire arrays using solid immersion microscopy
(2013) PHYM01 20122Mathematical Physics
- Abstract
- The nanowires technology has proved itself to be fairly promising in
order to develop more ecient optoelectronic devices such as solar cells
and LEDs. It becomes therefore interesting to be able to characterize
nanowires samples with a high precision, so that the light emitted from
each single nanowire can be detected and analyzed. The purpose of
this thesis project was to test if solid immersion microscopy represents
a valid tool in order to increase the resolution of optical microscopy
enough to distinguish between single nanowires in arrays. A solid im-
mersion lens was fabricated, and then it was tested on a number of
dierent samples in order to characterize it and to compare the re-
sults with the ones obtained by standard... (More) - The nanowires technology has proved itself to be fairly promising in
order to develop more ecient optoelectronic devices such as solar cells
and LEDs. It becomes therefore interesting to be able to characterize
nanowires samples with a high precision, so that the light emitted from
each single nanowire can be detected and analyzed. The purpose of
this thesis project was to test if solid immersion microscopy represents
a valid tool in order to increase the resolution of optical microscopy
enough to distinguish between single nanowires in arrays. A solid im-
mersion lens was fabricated, and then it was tested on a number of
dierent samples in order to characterize it and to compare the re-
sults with the ones obtained by standard optical microscopy. Solid
immersion microscopy led generally to a higher resolution in case of
white light images. Photoluminescence and electroluminescence mea-
surements were also performed; even though the experimental real-
ization of such measurements was somehow trickier, solid immersion
microscopy provides room for further improvements in resolution. (Less)
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- author
- Malabarba, Gioele LU
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- course
- PHYM01 20122
- year
- 2013
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
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- language
- English
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- 4114217
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@misc{4114217, abstract = {{The nanowires technology has proved itself to be fairly promising in order to develop more ecient optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and LEDs. It becomes therefore interesting to be able to characterize nanowires samples with a high precision, so that the light emitted from each single nanowire can be detected and analyzed. The purpose of this thesis project was to test if solid immersion microscopy represents a valid tool in order to increase the resolution of optical microscopy enough to distinguish between single nanowires in arrays. A solid im- mersion lens was fabricated, and then it was tested on a number of dierent samples in order to characterize it and to compare the re- sults with the ones obtained by standard optical microscopy. Solid immersion microscopy led generally to a higher resolution in case of white light images. Photoluminescence and electroluminescence mea- surements were also performed; even though the experimental real- ization of such measurements was somehow trickier, solid immersion microscopy provides room for further improvements in resolution.}}, author = {{Malabarba, Gioele}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Optical characterization of patterned nanowire arrays using solid immersion microscopy}}, year = {{2013}}, }