PbS nanoparticles capped with tetrathiafulvalenetetracarboxylate: Utilizing energy level alignment for efficient carrier transport

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2532-2540

  Scheele, Marcus ^a,b   Hanifi, David ^a   Zherebetskyy, Danylo ^a   Chourou, Slim T ^a   Axnanda, Stephanus ^a   Rancatore, Benjamin J ^a,b   Thorkelsson, Kari ^c   Xu, Ting ^a,b,c   Liu, Zhi ^a   Wang, Lin Wang ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Alivisatos, A Paul ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

field effect transistors; hybrid materials; organic semiconductors; semiconductor nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HYBRID MATERIALS; PHOTOELECTRONS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AMBIENT-PRESSURE X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPIES; ATOMISTIC CALCULATIONS; COUPLED NANOPARTICLES; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC; INTER-PARTICLE SPACING; PHASE SEGREGATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84897000864     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406127s     Document Type: Article

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