Tuning of electronic properties in IV-VI colloidal nanostructures by alloy composition and architecture

Nanoscale

Volumn 5, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 7724-7745

  Sashchiuk, Aldona ^a   Yanover, Diana ^a   Rubin Brusilovski, Anna ^a   Maikov, Georgy I ^a   Čapek, Richard K ^a   Vaxenburg, Roman ^a   Tilchin, Jenya ^a   Zaiats, Gary ^a   Lifshitz, Efrat ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-SHELL HETEROSTRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; LEAD CHALCOGENIDES; OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; RADIATIVE LIFETIME; SYNTHESIS PROCEDURE; TEMPERATURE STABILITY; THEORETICAL MODELS;

ALLOYING; BAND STRUCTURE; CHALCOGENIDES; CHEMICAL STABILITY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 84881540984     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3nr02141f     Document Type: Article

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