Light Emission from Nanocrystalline Si Inverse Opals and Controlled Passivation by Atomic Layer Deposited Al2O3

This work was partially supported by EU FP7 NoE Nanophotonics 4 Energy grant No. 248855; the Spanish MICINN CSD2007-0046 (Nanolight.es), CSD2008-00023 (FUNCOAT), CSD2009-00013 (Imagine), MAT2009-07841 (GLUSFA), TEC2008-06756-C03-02/TEC, CSIC PIF08-016 (Intramural Frontera), MAT2010-18432 and the Comunidad de Madrid S2009/MAT-1756 (PHAMA) projects. F. G. G. was supported by the JAE Postdoctoral Program from the CSIC. M. I. is a Ramon y Cajal researcher.