Overview: Offers the first comprehensive treatment of recent advances in quantum-sized silicon device technology.Presents systematic and vivid descriptions from a technological viewpoint, providing a realistic .Recent developments in the technology of silicon nanocrystals and silicon nanostructures, where quantum-size effects are important, are systematically described including examples of device applications. Due to the strong quantum confinement effect, the material properties are freed from the usual indirect- or direct-bandgap regime, and the optical, electrical, thermal, and chemical pro
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