Band mapping across a pn-junction in a nanorod by scanning tunneling microscopy

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2000-2005

  Bera, Abhijit ^a   Dey, Sukumar ^a   Pal, Amlan J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

density of states; mapping of band edges across a pn junction in a nanorod; pn junction in a nanorod; scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

BAND-EDGES; CATIONIC EXCHANGE; DENSITY OF STATE; DEPLETION REGION; P-N JUNCTION; SALIENT FEATURES; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAHIGH-VACUUM SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES;

NANORODS;

EID: 84897986727     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl500081m     Document Type: Article

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