Nano-Structured Silicon-Based Films with Visible Light Emission Synthesized by Laser Ablation

1996 ◽  
Vol 452 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Makimura ◽  
Y. Kunu ◽  
N. Ono ◽  
K. Murakami

AbstractApplying laser ablation technique, we have synthesized two types of SiO2 films that include nanometer-sized Si particles. One is synthesized by alternative deposition of Si nanoparticles layers and SiO2 layers. The synthesized film exhibits red photoluminescence (PL) with a peak energy below 1.5 eV. The other is synthesized by annealing at 1000°C of SiOx films, which are formed by laser ablation in diluted O2 gas. We find that there is a narrow range of composition for efficient red PL. Based on the experimental results, we tentatively discuss a possible model for the origin of the red PL.

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (Part 2, No. 12B) ◽  
pp. L1703-L1705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Makimura ◽  
Yasuhiko Kunii ◽  
Naoto Ono ◽  
Kouichi Murakami

Author(s):  
C. Jacobsen ◽  
J. Fu ◽  
S. Mayer ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
S. Williams

In scanning luminescence x-ray microscopy (SLXM), a high resolution x-ray probe is used to excite visible light emission (see Figs. 1 and 2). The technique has been developed with a goal of localizing dye-tagged biochemically active sites and structures at 50 nm resolution in thick, hydrated biological specimens. Following our initial efforts, Moronne et al. have begun to develop probes based on biotinylated terbium; we report here our progress towards using microspheres for tagging.Our initial experiments with microspheres were based on commercially-available carboxyl latex spheres which emitted ~ 5 visible light photons per x-ray absorbed, and which showed good resistance to bleaching under x-ray irradiation. Other work (such as that by Guo et al.) has shown that such spheres can be used for a variety of specific labelling applications. Our first efforts have been aimed at labelling ƒ actin in Chinese hamster ovarian (CHO) cells. By using a detergent/fixative protocol to load spheres into cells with permeabilized membranes and preserved morphology, we have succeeded in using commercial dye-loaded, spreptavidin-coated 0.03μm polystyrene spheres linked to biotin phalloidon to label f actin (see Fig. 3).


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Vol 31 (Part 2, No. 5A) ◽  
pp. L560-L563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukinori Ochiai ◽  
Norio Ookubo ◽  
Heiji Watanabe ◽  
Shinji Matsui ◽  
Yasunori Mochizuki ◽  
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1991 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 529-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Zanoni ◽  
Alessandro Paccagnella ◽  
Pietro Pisoni ◽  
Paolo Telaroli ◽  
Carlo Tedesco ◽  
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1999 ◽  
Vol 74 (21) ◽  
pp. 3164-3166 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Wilcoxon ◽  
G. A. Samara

1993 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 1209-1210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiro Futagi ◽  
Takahiro Matsumoto ◽  
Masakazu Katsuno ◽  
Yasumitsu Ohta ◽  
Hidenori Mimura ◽  
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