Formation of asymmetric one-sided metal-tipped semiconductor nanocrystal dots and rods

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 855-863

  Mokari, Taleb ^a   Sztrum, Claudia G ^b   Salant, Asaf ^a   Rabani, Eran ^b   Banin, Uri ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

NANOCRYSTAL DOTS; PARTICLE SHAPES; PHASE-SEGREGATED STRUCTURE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 33644656192     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1505     Document Type: Article

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