Two-versus three-dimensional quantum confinement in indium phosphide wires and dots

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 517-520

  Yu, Heng ^a   Li, Jingbo ^b   Loomis, Richard A ^a   Wang, Lin Wang ^b   Buhro, William E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CATALYSTS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ENERGY GAP; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PYROLYSIS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BANDGAP; ELECTRON COFINEMENT; HOLE CONFINEMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM CONFINEMENT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

INDIUM; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUMINESCENCE; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SYNTHESIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC WIRING; ENERGY TRANSFER; INDIUM; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOSPHINES; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0041784066     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat942     Document Type: Letter

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