Imaging electroluminescence from individual nanoparticles in an array exhibiting room temperature single electron effect

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 7403-7410

  Ong, Jason Kee Yang ^a   Nguyen, Chieu Van ^a   Sayood, Sena ^c   Saraf, Ravi F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coulomb blockade; electroluminescence; field assisted ionization; nanoparticles; one dimensional nanoparticle arrays; single electron effect

Indexed keywords

APPLIED BIAS; AU PARTICLES; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; INTERNAL FIELD; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE-ELECTRON EFFECTS;

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CEMENTS; COULOMB BLOCKADE; IONIZATION; NANOPARTICLES;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84883244534     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403165q     Document Type: Article

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