Tunable electronic interfaces betweenbulk semiconductors and ligand-stabilized nanoparticle assemblies

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 592-596

  Boettcher, Shannon W ^a   Strandwitz, Nicholas C ^b   Schierhorn, Martin ^a   Lock, Nina ^c   Lonergan, Mark C ^d   Stucky, Galen D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Santa Barbara   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGANDS; NANOPARTICLES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

BULK ELECTROACTIVE MATERIALS; ELECTRONIC DEVICES; NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES; TUNABLE ELECTRONIC INTERFACES;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 34547595927     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1943     Document Type: Article

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