Imaging "invisible" dopant atoms in semiconductor nanocrystals

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5553-5557

  Gunawan, Aloysius A ^a   Mkhoyan, K Andre ^a   Wills, Andrew W ^a   Thomas, Malcolm G ^b   Norris, David J ^c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy; colloidal quantum dots; dopant imaging; Electron energy loss spectroscopy; semiconductor nanocrystals; solotronics

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; SOLOTRONICS;

ATOMS; DISSOCIATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMPURITIES; MANGANESE; NANOCRYSTALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 83655192448     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2034688     Document Type: Article

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