Measuring charge carrier diffusion in coupled colloidal quantum dot solids

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5282-5290

  Zhitomirsky, David ^a   Voznyy, Oleksandr ^a   Hoogland, Sjoerd ^a   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

colloidal quantum dots; diffusion length; lifetime; mobility; transport

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; DIFFUSION LENGTH; HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC; LIFETIME; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SEMICONDUCTING MATERIALS; TRANSPORT;

CARRIER MOBILITY; CHARGE CARRIERS; HYBRID MATERIALS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 84879617023     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn402197a     Document Type: Article

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