A molecule to detect and perturb the confinement of charge carriers in quantum dots

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5455-5460

  Frederick, Matthew T ^a   Amin, Victor A ^a   Cass, Laura C ^a   Weiss, Emily A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

charge carrier; delocalization; dithiocarbamate; organic adlayer; quantum confinement; Quantum dot

Indexed keywords

ADLAYERS; BATHOCHROMIC SHIFT; CDS; DELOCALIZATIONS; DITHIOCARBAMATES; ELECTRONIC COUPLING; HETEROGENEOUS INTERFACES; HIGH DENSITY; HYBRID DEVICES; MULTIPLE CONFINEMENT; NANO-STRUCTURED; ORGANIC LIGANDS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC;

ADSORPTION; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CHARGE CARRIERS; LIGANDS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 83655172549     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl203222m     Document Type: Article

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