X-ray excited optical luminescence from hexagonal boron nitride nanotubes: Electronic structures and the role of oxygen impurities

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 631-639

  Liu, Lijia ^a   Sham, Tsun Kong ^a   Han, Weiqiang ^b   Zhi, Chunyi ^c   Bando, Yoshio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boron nitride nanotubes; Oxygen impurities; X ray absorption near edge structures; X ray excited optical luminescence

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; HEXAGONAL BN CRYSTALS; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; HEXAGONAL STRUCTURES; O K-EDGES; OPTICAL LUMINESCENCE; OXYGEN IMPURITIES; OXYGEN IMPURITY; STRONG LUMINESCENCE; X-RAY ABSORPTION NEAR-EDGE STRUCTURE; X-RAY EXCITED OPTICAL LUMINESCENCE; XANES MEASUREMENTS;

ABSORPTION; BORON; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; NANOTUBES; NITRIDES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXYGEN; X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAYS;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 79959922603     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102881j     Document Type: Article

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