Tunable magnetic exchange interactions in manganese-doped inverted core-shell ZnSe-CdSe nanocrystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-40

  Bussian, David A ^a,b   Crooker, Scott A ^c   Yin, Ming ^a   Brynda, Marcin ^d   Efros, Alexander L ^e   Klimov, Victor I ^a,b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR INTEGRATED NANOTECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICHROISM; EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS; EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETISM; MANGANESE; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; CORE-SHELL NANOCRYSTALS; INVERTED CORE SHELLS; MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISMS; MAGNETIC EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS; NANO-CRYSTAL MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; SP-D EXCHANGE INTERACTION;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 57849092617     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2342     Document Type: Article

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