Tunable photoconduction sensitivity and bandwidth for lithographically patterned nanocrystalline cadmium selenide nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 7627-7639

  Kung, Sheng Chin ^a   Xing, Wendong ^a   Van Der Veer, Wytze E ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Donavan, Keith C ^a   Cheng, Ming ^a   Hemminger, John C ^a   Penner, Reginald M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

electrodeposition; grain diameter; photodetector; photolithography; polycrystalline; thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SELENIDES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DEPOSITION BATH; ELECTRODEPOSITION METHODS; GRAIN DIAMETER; LATERAL DIMENSION; MEAN GRAIN DIAMETER; NANOCRYSTALLINES; PHOTOCONDUCTION; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE GAINS; POLYCRYSTALLINE; RISETIMES; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ANNEALING; BANDWIDTH; CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRODEPOSITION; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 80053312125     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202728f     Document Type: Article

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