Electroluminescence from single monolayers of nanocrystals in molecular organic devices

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6917, 2002, Pages 800-803

  Coe, Seth ^a   Woo, Wing Keung ^b   Bawendi, Moungi ^b   Bulović, Vladimir ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MONOLAYERS; OPTIMIZATION;

OPTOELECTRONIC STRUCTURES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; DEVICE; FILM; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 0347579846     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01217     Document Type: Article

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