Highly efficient carrier multiplication in PbS nanosheets

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Aerts, Michiel ^a   Bielewicz, Thomas ^b   Klinke, Christian ^b   Grozema, Ferdinand C ^a   Houtepen, Arjan J ^a   Schins, Juleon M ^a   Siebbeles, Laurens D A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCARRIER; NANOROD; OLEIC ACID; PBS NANOSHEET; QUANTUM DOT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LEAD; LEAD SULFIDE; SULFIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLEACHING; BULK DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTON; QUANTUM YIELD; SYNTHESIS; THICKNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOLAR ENERGY;

LEAD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SULFIDES;

EID: 84899784246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4789     Document Type: Article

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