Supra gap excitation properties of differently confined PbS-nano structured materials studied with opto-impedance spectroscopy

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ziaudeen, Syed Abuthahir ^a,b   Gaddam, Rohit Ranganathan ^a,c   Pallapothu, Praveen Kumar ^a,c   Sugumar, Manoj Krishna ^a,c   Rangarajan, Jagannathan ^a  

^a CENTRAL ELECTROCHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b DrZakir Husain College   (India)

^c AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IV-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

COLLOIDAL METHODS; ELECTRON-LATTICE COUPLING; ENHANCED MOBILITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; GAP-EXCITATIONS; IMPEDANCE CHARACTERISTICS; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PBS QUANTUM DOTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84890739809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JNP.7.073075     Document Type: Article

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