Effect of interface alloying and band-alignment on the Auger recombination of heteronanocrystals

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Climente, J I ^a   Movilla, J L ^a   Planelles, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUGER RECOMBINATION; AUGER RECOMBINATION PROCESS; BAND ALIGNMENTS; CORE SIZE; CORE/SHELL NANOCRYSTALS; HETERONANOCRYSTALS; MAGIC SIZE; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SMOOTH INTERFACE; WIDE BAND GAP;

ALIGNMENT; ALLOYING; NANOCRYSTALS;

AUGERS;

EID: 84857827765     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3684981     Document Type: Article

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