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Supporting Information features the comparison of h-DFT results to experimental data, further information on the interface impact on Si nanocrystal electronic structure and its connection to quantum-chemical nature of N and O, details of UPS scans with further reference data, the derivation of charge carrier densities for nonequilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) transport simulation of undoped Si-nanowire MISFET devices and details on NEGF device simulations.
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Intrinsic ultrasmall nanoscale silicon turns n-/p-type with SiO2/Si3N4-coating
Dirk König, Daniel Hiller, Noël Wilck, Birger Berghoff, Merlin Müller, Sangeeta Thakur, Giovanni Di Santo, Luca Petaccia, Joachim Mayer, Sean Smith and Joachim Knoch
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2255–2264.
https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.9.210
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König, D.; Hiller, D.; Wilck, N.; Berghoff, B.; Müller, M.; Thakur, S.; Di Santo, G.; Petaccia, L.; Mayer, J.; Smith, S.; Knoch, J. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2255–2264. doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.210
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