Chiral shells and achiral cores in CdS quantum dots

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2452-2457

  Elliott, Simon D ^a   Moloney, Mícheál P ^b   Gun'ko, Yurii K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DICHROISM; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

CDS NANOCRYSTALS; CDS QUANTUM DOTS; CIRCULAR DICHROISMS; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; ENANTIOMERIC STRUCTURES; OPTICALLY ACTIVES; QUANTUM DOTS; SURFACE LAYERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; QUANTUM DOT; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; QUANTUM DOTS; SULFIDES;

EID: 52049102243     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl801453g     Document Type: Article

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