The birth of a type-II nanostructure: Carrier localization and optical properties of isoelectronically doped CdSe:Te nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 8325-8334

  Zhang, Lijun ^a   Lin, Zhibin ^a,b   Luo, Jun Wei ^a   Franceschetti, Alberto ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic and optical property; exciton; isoelectronically doped nanocrystals; type II nanostructures

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC CALCULATIONS; BIEXCITON BINDING ENERGY; CARRIER LOCALIZATION; CDSE; CDSE NANOCRYSTALS; CDTE; CONFIGURATION INTERACTIONS; CORE/SHELL; CORE/SHELL NANOCRYSTALS; DOPED NANOCRYSTALS; HOLE WAVE FUNCTIONS; NANO-HETEROSTRUCTURES; NANOCRYSTAL SIZES; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL METHOD; RADIATIVE LIFETIME; SINGLE PARTICLE EXCITATIONS; SIZE DEPENDENCE; SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTY; STOKES SHIFT; SUBSTITUTIONAL IMPURITIES;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EXCITONS; HOLE TRAPS; IMPURITIES; MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

NANOCRYSTALS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; NANOMATERIAL; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; TELLURIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TELLURIUM;

EID: 84866705651     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303060r     Document Type: Article

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