Self-assembly and thermal stability of binary superlattices of gold and silicon nanocrystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 3677-3682

  Yu, Yixuan ^a   Bosoy, Christian A ^a   Smilgies, Detlef M ^b   Korgel, Brian A ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

binary superlattice; colloids; monodisperse; self assembly; Si nanocrystal

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; MONO-DISPERSE; ORTHORHOMBIC STRUCTURES; SI NANOCRYSTAL; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SLOW EVAPORATION; TILTED SUBSTRATE;

COALESCENCE; COLLOIDS; EVAPORATION; GOLD; NANOCRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILICON; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE SEGREGATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 84887742427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401964s     Document Type: Article

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