Size Tunable Visible Luminescence from Individual Organic Monolayer Stabilized Silicon Nanocrystal Quantum Dots

Nano Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 681-685

  English, Douglas S ^b,c   Pell, Lindsay E ^a   Yu, Zhonghua ^b   Barbara, Paul F ^b   Korgel, Brian A ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

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EID: 0003281266     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl025538c     Document Type: Article

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