A Route to phase Controllable Cu2ZnSn(S1-xSe x)4 nanocrystals with tunable energy bands

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ji, Shulin ^a   Shi, Tongfei ^a   Qiu, Xiaodong ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Xu, Guoping ^a   Chen, Chao ^a   Jiang, Zheng ^b   Ye, Changhui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84884929453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02733     Document Type: Article

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