Double-heterojunction nanorods

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Oh, Nuri ^a   Nam, Sooji ^a   Zhai, You ^a   Deshpande, Kishori ^b   Trefonas, Pete ^c   Shim, Moonsub ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^c Dow Electronic Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOROD; QUANTUM DOT;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT COMPONENT; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THRESHOLD;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM YIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84921788854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4642     Document Type: Article

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