Enhanced carrier multiplication in engineered quasi-type-II quantum dots

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Cirloganu, Claudiu M ^a   Padilha, Lazaro A ^a   Lin, Qianglu ^b   Makarov, Nikolay S ^a   Velizhanin, Kirill A ^a   Luo, Hongmei ^b   Robel, Istvan ^a   Pietryga, Jeffrey M ^a   Klimov, Victor I ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCARRIER; QUANTUM DOT;

CADMIUM; COOLING; ELECTRON; ENGINEERING; FUEL CELL; LEAD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SELENIUM; SOLAR POWER;

ARTICLE; CATION EXCHANGE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COOLING; ELECTRON; ENERGY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INFRARED RADIATION; PHONON; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM YIELD; THICKNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84902818471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5148     Document Type: Article

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