Heteroepitaxial junction in Au-ZnSe nanostructure: Experiment versus first-principle simulation

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1892-1898

  Bose, Riya ^a   Wasey, A H M Abdul ^a   Das, Gour P ^a   Pradhan, Narayan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Au ZnSe; coincidence site epitaxy; heterojunction; heteronanostructures; interface electronic structure

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; NANOSTRUCTURES; ZINC SULFIDE;

AU-ZNSE; FIRST PRINCIPLE SIMULATION; HETERO-NANOSTRUCTURES; INTERFACE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; INTERFACE ENERGY; LARGE LATTICE MISMATCH; SIMULATED RESULTS; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84902083661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500777k     Document Type: Article

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