Effect of Al3+ co-doping on the dopant local structure, optical properties, and exciton dynamics in Cu+-doped ZnSe nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 8680-8692

  Gul, Sheraz ^a,b   Cooper, Jason Kyle ^a   Glans, Per Anders ^b   Guo, Jinghua ^b   Yachandra, Vittal K ^b   Yano, Junko ^b   Zhang, Jin Zhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

co doped; copper doped; doped semiconductor nanocrystals; EXAFS; exciton dynamics; ZnSe

Indexed keywords

CO-DOPED; DOPED SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; EXAFS; EXCITON DYNAMICS; ZNSE;

ALUMINUM; COPPER; DYNAMICS; EXCITONS; EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 84886996851     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn402932q     Document Type: Article

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