Energetic pinning of magnetic impurity levels in quantum-confined semiconductors

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2887-2892

  Norberg, Nick S ^a,c   Dalpian, Gustavo M ^b,d   Chelikowsky, James R ^b   Gamelin, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC IMPURITY LEVELS; MINIATURIZATION; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT;

BINDING ENERGY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); IONIZATION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 33846370180     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl062153b     Document Type: Article

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