Density of states measured by scanning-tunneling spectroscopy sheds new light on the optical transitions in PbSe nanocrystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Liljeroth, Peter ^a   Van Emmichoven, Pedro A Zeijlmans ^a   Hickey, Stephen G ^b   Weller, Horst ^b   Grandidier, Bruno ^c   Allan, Guy ^c   Vanmaekelbergh, Daniël ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; PBSE NANOCRYSTALS; RESONANT TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; TIGHT-BINDING CALCULATIONS;

BINDING ENERGY; LEAD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELENIUM;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 27144451973     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.086801     Document Type: Article

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