Tunable near-infrared and visible-light transmittance in nanocrystal-in-glass composites

Nature

Volumn 500, Issue 7462, 2013, Pages 323-326

  Llordés, Anna ^a   Garcia, Guillermo ^a   Gazquez, Jaume ^b   Milliron, Delia J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; METAL OXIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; NIOBIUM OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL BONDING; COMPOSITE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; INFRARED RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL METHOD; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84881651215     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12398     Document Type: Article

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