Efficient and ultrafast formation of long-lived charge-transfer exciton state in atomically thin cadmium selenide/cadmium telluride type-II heteronanosheets

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 961-968

  Wu, Kaifeng ^a   Li, Qiuyang ^a   Jia, Yanyan ^b   McBride, James R ^c   Xie, Zhao Xiong ^b   Lian, Tianquan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

charge separation; colloidal nanosheets; photocatalysis; type II heterostructures

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CHALCOGENIDES; CHARGE TRANSFER; EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSHEETS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEPARATION; SOLAR ENERGY;

CADMIUM CHALCOGENIDES; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CHARGE TRANSFER EXCITONS; NONRADIATIVE RECOMBINATION PROCESS; NONRADIATIVE RECOMBINATION RATES; PHOTOLUMINESENCE EXCITATIONS; TYPE II; ULTRAFAST TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84921807475     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn506796m     Document Type: Article

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