Indirect optical transitions in hybrid spheres with alternating layers of titania and graphene oxide nanosheets

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 28801-28807

  Bao, Shanshan ^a   Hua, Zheng ^a   Wang, Xiaoyong ^a   Zhou, Yong ^a   Zhang, Chunfeng ^a   Tu, Wenguang ^a   Zou, Zhigang ^a   Xiao, Min ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSHEETS; OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; SPHERES;

ALTERNATING LAYERS; ENERGY LEVEL STRUCTURES; GRAPHENE OXIDES; LAYER-BY-LAYER SELF-ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUE; SPHERICAL STRUCTURES; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; TIO; TITANIA;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

GRAPHITE; NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHITE; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TITANIUM;

EID: 84872032930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.028801     Document Type: Article

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