Low exciton-phonon coupling, high charge carrier mobilities, and multiexciton properties in two-dimensional lead, silver, cadmium, and copper chalcogenide nanostructures

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 4291-4297

  Ding, Yuchen ^a   Singh, Vivek ^a   Goodman, Samuel M ^a   Nagpal, Prashant ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry ^*  (United States)

^b a partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

2D nanomaterials; low exciton phonon coupling; optoelectronic properties; ultrathin semiconductors

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CARRIER MOBILITY; COPPER; EXCITONS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHONONS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SILVER; SOLS; SURFACE PLASMONS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

CHARGE COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; EXCITON-PHONON COUPLINGS; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOSTRUCTURED SEMICONDUCTOR; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; ULTRA-THIN;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84918801570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz5023015     Document Type: Review

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