Charge carrier trapping and acoustic phonon modes in single CdTe nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5274-5282

  Lo, Shun Shang ^a   Major, Todd A ^a   Petchsang, Nattasamon ^a   Huang, Libai ^b   Kuno, Masaru K ^a   Hartland, Gregory V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic phonon modes; charge carrier trapping; semiconductor nanowires; transient absorption microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; BAND EDGE; BREATHING MODES; CDTE; CHARGE CARRIER TRAPPING; COMPLEX INTERACTION; HOLE TRAPPING; LATERAL DIMENSION; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; NEAR-IR; QUALITY FACTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SINGLE PARTICLE; SURFACE TRAP; TIME CONSTANTS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS; WET CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS;

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; DYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; NANOWIRES; WIRE;

CHARGE CARRIERS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; NANOPARTICLE; TELLURIUM;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SOUND; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABSORPTION; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SOUND; TELLURIUM;

EID: 84862881148     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3010526     Document Type: Article

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