Thickness-Dependent Phonon Renormalization and Enhanced Raman Scattering in Ultrathin Silicon Nanomembranes

Seonwoo Lee; Kangwon Kim; Krishna P. Dhakal; Hyunmin Kim; Won Seok Yun; Jaedong Lee; Hyeonsik Cheong; Jong Hyun Ahn

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03944

Thickness-Dependent Phonon Renormalization and Enhanced Raman Scattering in Ultrathin Silicon Nanomembranes

Seonwoo Lee, Kangwon Kim, Krishna P. Dhakal, Hyunmin Kim, Won Seok Yun, Jaedong Lee, Hyeonsik Cheong, Jong Hyun Ahn

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We report on the thickness-dependent Raman spectroscopy of ultrathin silicon (Si) nanomembranes (NMs), whose thicknesses range from 2 to 18 nm, using several excitation energies. We observe that the Raman intensity depends on the thickness and the excitation energy due to the combined effects of interference and resonance from the band-structure modulation. Furthermore, confined acoustic phonon modes in the ultrathin Si NMs were observed in ultralow-frequency Raman spectra, and strong thickness dependence was observed near the quantum limit, which was explained by calculations based on a photoelastic model. Our results provide a reliable method with which to accurately determine the thickness of Si NMs with thicknesses of less than a few nanometers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7744-7750
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nano letters
Volume	17
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03944
Publication status	Published - 2017 Dec 13

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (grant nos. NRF-2015R1A3A2066337, NRF-2016R1A2B3008363, CASE2014M3A6A5060933, and 2011-0031630).

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