Metal Domain Size Dependent Electrical Transport in Pt-CdSe Hybrid Nanoparticle Monolayers

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6077-6087

  Meyns, Michaela ^a,b   Willing, Svenja ^a   Lehmann, Hauke ^a   Klinke, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

Author keywords

colloidal hybrid nanoparticles; electrical transport; Langmuir Blodgett deposition; photoconductivity; size effects

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PLATINUM; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

CHARGE TRANSPORT MECHANISMS; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC CONFINEMENT; HYBRID NANOPARTICLE; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT DEPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES; SIZE EFFECTS;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84934897343     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01221     Document Type: Article

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