Effect of quantum and dielectric confinement on the exciton-exciton interaction energy in type II core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 108-115

  Piryatinski, Andrei ^a   Ivanov, Sergei A ^b,c   Tretiak, Sergei ^a,c   Klimov, Victor I ^b,c  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC CONFINEMENT; EXCITON-EXCITON INTERACTION ENERGY; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; EXCITONS; INFORMATION THEORY; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRICITY; QUANTUM THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRICITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33846874125     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0622404     Document Type: Article

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