Interplay of spinodal and diffusion-limited aggregation in formation of nanocrystal assembled 2D islands

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 114, Issue 41, 2010, Pages 17416-17421

  Ou, Yi Ching ^a   Zhuravlev, Konstantin S ^b   Fang, Jiye ^c   Jian, Wen Bin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D ISLANDS; COLLECTIVE PROPERTIES; CRITICAL NUCLEUS SIZE; DIFFUSION LIMITED AGGREGATION; DROP-CASTING; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; FLAT SURFACES; FRACTAL PATTERNS; GROWTH MECHANISMS; GROWTH MODELS; GROWTH PATTERNS; MONOLAYER COVERAGE; QUANTUM DOT; SCALING FUNCTIONS; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; SPINODALS;

CURVE FITTING; DIFFUSION; GOLD COATINGS; GROWTH RATE; MONOLAYERS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHASE SEPARATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 77957983695     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp105344b     Document Type: Article

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