Amorphous silicon nanomaterials: Quantum dots versus nanowires

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kryjevski, Andrei ^a   Kilin, Dmitri ^b   Kilina, Svetlana ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of South Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; OSCILLATOR STRENGTHS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOMATERIALS; STRONG DEPENDENCES; STRUCTURAL DISORDERS;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84883154362     PISSN: 19417012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4817728     Document Type: Article

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