Controlling band gap energies in cluster-assembled ionic solids through internal electric fields

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5813-5818

  Chaki, Nirmalya K ^a   Mandal, Sukhendu ^a   Reber, Arthur C ^b   Qian, Meichun ^b   Saavedra, Hector M ^a   Weiss, Paul S ^a,c   Khanna, Shiv N ^b   Sen, Ayusman ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

arsenic clusters; band gap tuning; cluster assembled materials

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP ENERGY; BAND GAPS; BAND-BROADENING; BAND-GAP TUNING; CLUSTER-ASSEMBLED MATERIALS; COUNTERIONS; ENGINEERED NANOMATERIALS; INTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONIC SOLIDS; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ASSEMBLIES;

ARSENIC; ELECTRIC FIELDS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; TUNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 78049350222     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101640r     Document Type: Article

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