Hole-induced electron transport through core-shell quantum dots: A direct measurement of the electron-hole interaction

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1931-1935

  Swart, Ingmar ^a,b   Sun, Zhixiang ^a   Vanmaekelbergh, Daniël ^a   Liljeroth, Peter ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ambipolar electron transport; Core shell quantum dots; Electron hole interaction; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Scanning tunneling spectroscopy; Single electron Tunneling

Indexed keywords

AMBIPOLAR; CORE-SHELL QUANTUM DOTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON-HOLE INTERACTIONS; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE ELECTRON TUNNELING;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 77952414646     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl100949a     Document Type: Article

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