Nanostructured materials for photon detection

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 391-400

  Konstantatos, Gerasimos ^a,b   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTONS; PLASMONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLS; SUBSTRATES;

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; DETECTION OF PHOTONS; FIBRE-OPTIC COMMUNICATION; LARGE-AREA SUBSTRATES; LAYER BY LAYER DEPOSITION; MULTIEXCITON GENERATION; SILICON ELECTRONICS; SURFACE AND INTERFACES;

CASTING;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

ABSORPTION; CONDUCTOR; DIODE; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SIZE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 77955218067     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.78     Document Type: Review

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