Lifetime, mobility, and diffusion of photoexcited carriers in ligand-exchanged lead selenide nanocrystal films measured by time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1820-1828

  Guglietta, Glenn W ^a   Diroll, Benjamin T ^b   Gaulding, E Ashley ^c   Fordham, Julia L ^c   Li, Siming ^a   Murray, Christopher B ^b,c   Baxter, Jason B ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

field effect transistors; lead selenide; photoconductivity; quantum dots; solar cells; terahertz spectroscopy; THz

Indexed keywords

CHELATION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS; IV-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; LEAD METALLOGRAPHY; LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SODIUM SULFIDE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIUM THIOCYANATE; COLLOIDAL SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; LEAD SELENIDE; PHOTOEXCITED CARRIERS; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM; TRANSIENT PHOTOCURRENTS;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84923404615     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn506724h     Document Type: Article

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