Impact of shell thickness on exciton and biexciton binding energies of a ZnSe/ZnS coreshell quantum dot

Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1201-1205

  Sen, Pratima ^a   Chattopadhyay, Saikat ^a   Andrews, Joseph Thomas ^b   Sen, Pranay Kumar ^b  

^a DEVI AHILYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SHRI G S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

A. Nanostructures; A. Optical materials; A. Semiconductors; D. Electronic structure

Indexed keywords

A. NANOSTRUCTURES; A. OPTICAL MATERIALS; A. SEMICONDUCTORS; ANTI-BONDING STATE; BIEXCITON BINDING ENERGY; CONFINEMENT POTENTIAL; CORE RADIUS; CORE-SHELL; EXCHANGE AND CORRELATION EFFECTS; EXCITON-BINDING ENERGY; QUANTUM DOT; SHELL STRUCTURE; SHELL THICKNESS;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EXCITONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

BINDING ENERGY;

EID: 77955516856     PISSN: 00223697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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