Fast, sensitive and spectrally tuneable colloidal-quantum-dot photodetectors

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-44

  Clifford, Jason P ^a   Konstantatos, Gerasimos ^a   Johnston, Keith W ^a   Hoogland, Sjoerd ^a   Levina, Larissa ^a   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MICROELECTRONICS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; SOLS; SUBSTRATES;

BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; DIFFUSION COMPONENTS; DIRECT INTEGRATION; ELECTRON DIFFUSION; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; TEMPORAL RESPONSE; ULTRA SENSITIVES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; COLLOID; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 58149235115     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.313     Document Type: Article

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