Carrier transport in films of alkyl-ligand-terminated silicon nanocrystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 34, 2014, Pages 19580-19588

  Chen, Ting ^a   Skinner, Brian ^b,c   Xie, Wei ^a   Shklovskii, B I ^b   Kortshagen, Uwe R ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONIZATION; LIGANDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOCRYSTALS; TEMPERATURE;

CONDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; DEVICE APPLICATION; ELECTRIC FIELD DEPENDENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; POOLE-FRENKEL EFFECT; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; THERMALLY ACTIVATED;

SILICON;

EID: 84906861093     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5051723     Document Type: Article

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