Electrical effects of metal nanoparticles embedded in ultra-thin colloidal quantum dot films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Beck, F J ^a   Garcia De Arquer, F P ^a   Bernechea, M ^a   Konstantatos, G ^a  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT CONTACT; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ELECTRICAL EFFECTS; EMBEDDED METAL NANOPARTICLES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL EFFECTS; PLASMONIC; QUANTUM DOT FILMS; THIN SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS; ULTRA-THIN;

METAL NANOPARTICLES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 84864484011     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4738993     Document Type: Article

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