Single molecule quantum-confined Stark effect measurements of semiconductor nanoparticles at room temperature

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 10013-10023

  Park, Kyoungwon ^a   Deutsch, Zvicka ^b   Li, J Jack ^c   Oron, Dan ^b   Weiss, Shimon ^c,d  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

nanorod; quantum dot; quantum confined Stark effect; type I band alignment; type II band alignment; voltage sensing; wave function engineering

Indexed keywords

BAND ALIGNMENTS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; EXCITON-BINDING ENERGY; GAIN INSIGHT; HETEROSTRUCTURE INTERFACES; INDUCED DIPOLES; INHOMOGENEITIES; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; NANO SCALE; QUANTUM CONFINED STARK EFFECT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL; VOLTAGE SENSING; WAVE FUNCTION ENGINEERING;

ALIGNMENT; BINDING ENERGY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; POISSON EQUATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEPARATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTORS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84870395101     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303719m     Document Type: Article

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