Nanostructured titania films sensitized by quantum dot chalcogenides

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kontos, Athanassios G ^a   Likodimos, Vlassis ^a   Vassalou, Eleni ^a,b   Kapogianni, Ioanna ^a,b   Raptis, Yannis S ^b   Raptis, Costas ^b   Falaras, Polycarpos ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; ENERGY GAP; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; IV-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ADSORPTION; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHALCOGENIDES; DEGRADATION;

DEGRADATION EFFECT; EXCITONIC EMISSION; INTERFACIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER; NANOSTRUCTURED TITANIA FILMS; NEAR-INFRARED RANGE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; QUANTUM SIZE EFFECTS; SUCCESSIVE IONIC LAYER ADSORPTION AND REACTIONS; AIR EXPOSURE; CDS; DIRECT GROWTH; LEAD SULFIDE; MESOPOROUS TIO; MICRO-RAMAN; OPTICAL ABSORBANCE; SPECTRAL RANGE; TIO; TUNABILITIES; VISIBLE LIGHT;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 82655177890     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-266     Document Type: Article

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