Excitons in nanoscale systems

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 683-696

  Scholes, Gregory D ^a   Rumbles, Garry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYMERS; BINDING ENERGY; CARBON NANOTUBES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENT DEVICES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BULK MATERIALS; MOLECULAR AGGREGATES; NANOSCALE SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES;

EXCITONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 33748276727     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1710     Document Type: Review

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