Deep ultraviolet to near-infrared emission and photoresponse in layered n-doped graphene quantum dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 6312-6320

  Tang, Libin ^a,b   Ji, Rongbin ^b   Li, Xueming ^c   Bai, Gongxun ^a   Liu, Chao Ping ^a   Hao, Jianhua ^a   Lin, Jingyu ^d   Jiang, Hongxing ^d   Teng, Kar Seng ^e   Yang, Zhibin ^a   Lau, Shu Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^e SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

broadband emission; graphene quantum dot; nitrogen doping; photoluminescence; photoresponse

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); GOLD COATINGS; GRAPHENE; INFRARED DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

BROADBAND EMISSION; BROADBAND MODULATORS; FIBER COMMUNICATIONS; LAYERED STRUCTURES; NEAR-INFRARED EMISSIONS; NITROGEN-DOPED GRAPHENE; NITROGEN-DOPING; PHOTORESPONSES;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CARBON; COPPER; GLUCOSE; GRAPHITE; QUANTUM DOT;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; LASER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CARBON; COPPER; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; GLUCOSE; GRAPHITE; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84903454736     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501796r     Document Type: Article

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