Microstructure and photoluminescence properties of ternary Cd0.2Zn0.8S quantum dots synthesized by mechanical alloying

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Sain, Sumanta ^a   Kar, Arik ^b,c   Patra, Amitava ^b   Pradhan, Swapan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HRTEM; II VI semiconductors; Mechanical alloying; Rietveld analysis; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM ALLOYS; ENERGY GAP; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MECHANICAL ALLOYING; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIXTURES; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RIETVELD ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC SULFIDE;

HRTEM; MICRO-STRUCTURE PARAMETERS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; PLANETARY BALL MILL; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; STOICHIOMETRIC MIXTURES; STRUCTURE MODELLING; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

ZINC ALLOYS;

CADMIUM; QUANTUM DOT; SULFUR; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84919933744     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-014-2673-y     Document Type: Article

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