Hypervalent surface interactions for colloidal stability and doping of silicon nanocrystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wheeler, Lance M ^a   Neale, Nathan R ^b   Chen, Ting ^a   Kortshagen, Uwe R ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; NANOCRYSTAL; SILICON; SOLVENT;

COLLOID; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FILM; LIGAND; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; SILICON;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; DEVICES; DONOR; DOPING; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84881192270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3197     Document Type: Article

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