Quantum confinement-induced tunable exciton states in graphene oxide

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lee, Dongwook ^a   Seo, Jiwon ^a,b   Zhu, Xi ^c   Lee, Jiyoul ^d   Shin, Hyeon Jin ^d   Cole, Jacqueline M ^a,e   Shin, Taeho ^d   Lee, Jaichan ^b   Lee, Hangil ^f   Su, Haibin ^c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^f Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

^g RESEARCH TECHNO PLAZA   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; OXIDE; QUANTUM DOT;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE;

ELECTRONICS; GRAPHITE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDES; QUANTUM DOTS; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84880875177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02250     Document Type: Article

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