Local field effects on electron transport in nanostructured TiO2 revealed by terahertz spectroscopy

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 755-759

  Hendry, E ^a   Koeberg, M ^a   O'Regan, B ^b   Bonn, M ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRON TRAPS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CARRIER THERMALIZATION; ELECTRON MOBILITIES; MAXWELL-GARNETT; POLAR MATERIALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOMATERIAL; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROWAVES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TITANIUM;

EID: 33646401536     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0600225     Document Type: Article

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