The changing colors of a quantum-confined topological insulator

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1222-1230

  Vargas, Anthony ^a   Basak, Susmita ^a   Liu, Fangze ^a   Wang, Baokai ^a   Panaitescu, Eugen ^a   Lin, Hsin ^a   Markiewicz, Robert ^a   Bansil, Arun ^a   Kar, Swastik ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

band gap; bismuth selenide; chemical vapor deposition; quantum dots; topological insulator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894627064     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404013d     Document Type: Article

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