Twin-tail surfactant peculiarity in superficial fabrication of semiconductor quantum dots: Toward structural, optical, and electrical features

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5062-5073

  Jamwal, Deepika ^a   Kaur, Gurpreet ^b   Raizada, Pankaj ^a   Singh, Pardeep ^a   Pathak, Dinesh ^c   Thakur, Pankaj ^a,d  

^a SHOOLINI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SGGS College Sector 26   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLITE SIZE; ENERGY GAP; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; IV-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; NARROW BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

ABSORBANCE SPECTRUM; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON MICROGRAPH; NANOPARTICLE (NPS); OPTICAL BAND GAP ENERGY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL ASPECTS; SPHERICAL MORPHOLOGIES; WILLIAMSON-HALL ANALYSIS;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84924138515     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp510428z     Document Type: Article

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