Rational codoping as a strategy to improve optical properties of doped semiconductor quantum dots

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 3694-3700

  Zhang, Jin Z ^a   Cooper, Jason K ^a   Gul, Sheraz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; IONS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

CHARGE IMBALANCE; DONOR-ACCEPTOR-PAIR RECOMBINATION; HOST LATTICE; HOST MATERIALS; IMPURITY ELEMENT; LATTICE DISTORTIONS; NANOCRYSTAL (NCS); OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84908620165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz501739v     Document Type: Article

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