Great blue-shift of luminescence of ZnO nanoparticle array constructed from ZnO quantum dots

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Nengwen ^a   Yang, Yuhua ^a   Yang, Guowei ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; BLUE SHIFT; CATALYSTS; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES; SUBSTRATES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ZINC OXIDE; FABRICATION; NANOPARTICLES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SILICON;

BULK COUNTERPART; CLUSTER FORMATIONS; METAL CATALYST; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; THERMAL CHEMICAL VAPOR TRANSPORT; ULTRAVIOLET EMITTERS; ZNO QUANTUM DOTS; BLUE SHIFT; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SI SUBSTRATES; SI SURFACES; SMALL SIZE; ZNO; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

ZNO NANOPARTICLES; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84255167226     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-338     Document Type: Article

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