Determination of internal structures of heterogeneous nanocrystals using variable-energy photoemission spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 28, 2014, Pages 15534-15540

  Mukherjee, Sumanta ^a   Hazarika, Abhijit ^a   Santra, Pralay K ^a   Abdelhady, Ahmed L ^b   Malik, Mohammad Azad ^b   Gorgoi, Mihaela ^c   O'Brien, P ^b   Karis, O ^d   Sarma, D D ^a,d,e,f  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^f JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BULK SENSITIVE; DEPTH-RESOLVED; HETEROGENEOUS NANOPARTICLES; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; NANOPARTICLE STRUCTURES; SURFACE SENSITIVITY; UNIQUE FEATURES; VARIABLE-ENERGY X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84904573536     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp504283m     Document Type: Article

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