Fully inorganic oxide-in-oxide ultraviolet nanocrystal light emitting devices

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Brovelli, Sergio ^a,b   Chiodini, Norberto ^a   Lorenzi, Roberto ^a   Lauria, Alessandro ^a   Romagnoli, Marco ^c,d   Paleari, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d PhotonIC Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTAL; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; OXIDE; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE; TIN DIOXIDE; TIN OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; FILM; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; NANOFABRICATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84857709448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1683     Document Type: Article

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