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    Photoluminescence at room temperature of liquid-phase crystallized silicon on glass
    (New York, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2016) Vetter, Michael; Schwuchow, Anka; Andrä, Gudrun
    The room temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectrum due band-to-band recombination in an only 8 μm thick liquid-phase crystallized silicon on glass solar cell absorber is measured over 3 orders of magnitude with a thin 400 μm thick optical fiber directly coupled to the spectrometer. High PL signal is achieved by the possibility to capture the PL spectrum very near to the silicon surface. The spectra measured within microcrystals of the absorber present the same features as spectra of crystalline silicon wafers without showing defect luminescence indicating the high electronic material quality of the liquid-phase multi-crystalline layer after hydrogen plasma treatment.
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    A gold-nanotip optical fiber for plasmon-enhanced near-field detection
    (New York, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2013) Uebel, P.; Bauerschmidt, S.T.; Schmidt, M.A.; Russell, P.St.J.
    A wet-chemical etching and mechanical cleaving technique is used to fabricate gold nanotips attached to tapered optical fibers. Localized surface plasmon resonances (tunable from 500 to 850 nm by varying the tip dimensions) are excited at the tip, and the signal is transmitted via the fiber to an optical analyzer, making the device a plasmon-enhanced near-field probe. A simple cavity model is used to explain the resonances observed in numerical simulations.