Colloidal nanocrystal heterostructures with linear and branched topology

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 6996, 2004, Pages 190-195

  Milliron, Della ^a,b   Hughes, Steven M ^a,b   Cui, Yi ^a,b   Manna, Liberato ^a,b,c   Li, Jingbo ^b   Wang, Lin Wang ^b   Alivisatos, A Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TOPOLOGY;

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; NANOCRYSTALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOCRYSTAL;

PHYSICS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTAL; ENERGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 3142545233     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02695     Document Type: Article

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