CdS magic-sized nanocrystals exhibiting bright band gap photoemission via thermodynamically driven formation

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3832-3838

  Li, Minjie ^a,b   Ouyang, Jianying ^a   Ratcliffe, Christopher I ^a   Pietri, Laetitia ^a   Wu, Xiaohua ^a   Leek, Donald M ^a   Moudrakovski, Igor ^a   Lin, Quan ^b   Yang, Bai ^b   Yu, Kui ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Band gap emission; CdS; Homogeneous broadening; Magic sized nanocrystals (MSNs); Onepot noninjection; Single sized nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP EMISSION; CDS; HOMOGENEOUS BROADENING; NON-INJECTION; ONE POT;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM SULFIDE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ENERGY GAP; HEXANE; NANOCRYSTALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OLEIC ACID; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; NANOMATERIAL; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; HEAT; ILLUMINATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; LIGHTING; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFIDES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 73849099410     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9009455     Document Type: Article

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