Assessment of hot-carrier effects on charge separation in type-II CdS/CdTe heterostructured nanorods

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 2951-2956

  Okano, Makoto ^a   Sakamoto, Masanori ^a,b   Teranishi, Toshiharu ^a   Kanemitsu, Yoshihiko ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; ENERGY GAP; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANORODS; SEPARATION; THALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; HETEROSTRUCTURED NANORODS; HOT CARRIER EFFECT; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SEMICONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUBPICOSECOND TIME SCALE;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84922378697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz501564q     Document Type: Article

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