Identification of atomic-like electronic states in indium arsenide nanocrystal quantum dots

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6744, 1999, Pages 542-544

  Banin, Uri ^a   Cao, YunWei ^a   Katz, David ^a   Millo, Oded ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

ARTIFICIAL ATOMS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

INDIUM; INDIUM ARSENIDE; NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0033526997     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22979     Document Type: Article

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