Surface charges and optical characteristic of colloidal cubic SiC nanocrystals

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-7

  Li, Yong ^a,b,d   Chen, Changxin ^c   Li, Jiang Tao ^a   Yang, Yun ^a   Lin, Zhi Ming ^a  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^d NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Cubic sic nanocrystals; Photoluminescence; Quantum confinement; Surface charges

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; ETHANOL; MOLECULES; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SOLS; SURFACE CHARGE; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); WATER ABSORPTION; WET ETCHING;

ANISOTROPIC WET CHEMICAL ETCHING; BLUE-GREEN EMISSIONS; COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; CUBIC SIC NANOCRYSTALS; CUBIC SILICON CARBIDE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTRA; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; UV/VIS ABSORPTIONS;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 84862935858     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-454     Document Type: Article

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