Abstract
We present a systematic study of porous silicon photoluminescence quenching in the presence of precisely controlled amounts of linear aliphatic alcohols (from methanol to hexanol) in gas and liquid phases. From the concentration dependence of photoluminescence quenching response we determined sensitivity of porous silicon sensor for studied analytes. The sensor sensitivity revealed nearly monotonous change with the length of alcohol molecule within the homological set of alcohols in both gas and liquid phases. However, while in gas phase the sensor sensitivity rose with the length of alcohol chain, in liquid phase we observed the opposite behaviour. Photoluminescence quenching behaviour in liquid phase is very well explained by exciton dielectric quenching mechanism. In gas phase photoluminescence quenching depends both on analyte dielectric constant and analyte equilibrium concentration inside porous matrix which is controlled by capillary condensation effect.
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