Abstract
AbstractWe report Raman spectroscopy measurements on Ge nanocrystals with average radii ranging from about 65 Å down to 10 Å (with a size dispersion lower than 20 %).Ge has been deposited by UHV evaporation on an amorphous substrate, kept at such a temperature as to produce the Ge nanodroplets nucleation in the liquid phase.A nanocrystalline size dependence of the Raman spectra has been observed and explained in the framework of a phonon confinement model. We have observed the softening of the TO Raman peak predicted by the theory when the dimensions of the particles are decreased. Moreover the observed inhomogeneous broadening of the Raman lines has been correlated with the size distribution of the particles in the samples.Our results provide a characterization of Ge nanoparticles exhibiting a good crystalline nature, down to about 10 Å, and in conditions of substantial absence of perturbations of the environment.
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