Controlling light absorption in charge-separating core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 11055-11063

  Mahadevu, Rekha ^a   Yelameli, Aniruddha R ^a   Panigrahy, Bharati ^a   Pandey, Anshu ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

absorption cross section; heterostructure; quantum dot; semiconductor nanocrystal; type II

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; HETEROSTRUCTURE; QUANTUM DOT; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; TYPE-II;

LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOCRYSTALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84891348148     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404749n     Document Type: Article

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