Tailoring the physical properties of thiol-capped PbS quantum dots by thermal annealing

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 31, 2009, Pages

  Turyanska, L ^a   Elfurawi, U ^a   Li, M ^b   Fay, M W ^a   Thomas, N R ^a   Mann, S ^b   Blokland, J H ^c   Christianen, P C M ^c   Patane A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AXES; MAGNETOPHOTOLUMINESCENCE; NANOPARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL LINEWIDTH; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EMISSION; QUANTUM DOT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ANNEALING; COALESCENCE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

LEAD SULFIDE; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT; THIOL; LEAD; SULFIDE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ANNEALING; THERMAL EXPOSURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; HEATING; LUMINESCENCE; TEMPERATURE;

COLLOIDS; HEATING; LEAD; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SULFIDES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67849088247     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/31/315604     Document Type: Article

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