Photophysical properties of ball milled silicon nanostructures† Ankit Goyal, *a Menno Demmenie,a Chia-Ching Huang,a Peter Schalla and Katerina Dohnalova a Abstract Luminescent silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) have attracted scientific interest for their potential use in LEDs, displays, lasers, photovoltaic spectral-shifting filters and for biomedical applications. A lot of efforts have been made to improve the radiative emission rate in SiNCs, mostly using quantum confinement, strain and ligands.
