Energy level control: Toward an efficient hot electron transport

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jin, Xiao ^a   Li, Qinghua ^a   Li, Yue ^a   Chen, Zihan ^a   Wei, Tai Huei ^b   He, Xingdao ^a   Sun, Weifu ^c  

^a NANCHANG HANGKONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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EID: 84905694056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05983     Document Type: Article

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