Strain induced exciton fine-structure splitting and shift in bent ZnO microwires

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Liao, Zhi Min ^a   Wu, Han Chun ^b   Fu, Qiang ^a   Fu, Xuewen ^a   Zhu, Xinli ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Shvets, Igor V ^b   Zhang, Zhuhua ^c   Guo, Wanlin ^c   Leprince Wang, Yamin ^d   Zhao, Qing ^a   Wu, Xiaosong ^a   Yu, Da Peng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^d National Centre of Scientific Research   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; LDS 751; NANOWIRE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84862162982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00452     Document Type: Article

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