Second harmonic generation and broad-band photoluminescence in mesoporous Si/SiO2nanoparticles

Viktoriia Mastalieva*, Vladimir Neplokh, Arseniy Aybush, Ekaterina Stovpiaga, Daniil Eurov, Maksim Vinnichenko, Danila Karaulov, Demid Kirillenko, Alexey Mozharov, Vladislav Sharov, Denis Kolchanov, Andrey Machnev, Valery Golubev, Alexander Smirnov, Pavel Ginzburg, Sergey Makarov, Dmitry Kurdyukov, Ivan Mukhin

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Abstract

Efficient second harmonic generation and broad-band photoluminescence from deeply subwavelength and nontoxic nanoparticles is essential for nanophotonic applications. Here, we explore nonlinear optical response from mesoporous Si/SiO2, SiO2, and Si nanoparticles, considering various fabrication and treatment procedures. We show that thermal annealing (including femtosecond laser treatment) of mesoporous Si/SiO2 nanoparticles provides the transformation of Si phase from amorphous to crystalline, enhancing the second harmonic and nonlinear photoluminescent response. Notably, the SiO2 mesoporous frame of the considered Si/SiO2 nanoparticles plays a dual positive role for the nonlinear process: it stabilizes the Si material, and SiO2:OH- material has a second-order nonlinearity itself and impacts to the observed second harmonic signal.

Original languageEnglish
JournalNanophotonics
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2024

Keywords

  • broad-band photoluminescence
  • nanoparticles
  • nonlinear nanophotonics
  • second harmonics
  • silicon

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