Stable Dispersion of Iodide-Capped PbSe Quantum Dots for High-Performance Low-Temperature Processed Electronics and Optoelectronics

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4328-4337

  Sayevich, Vladimir ^a   Gaponik, Nikolai ^a   Plötner, Matthias ^b   Kruszynska, Marta ^a   Gemming, Thomas ^c   Dzhagan, Volodymyr M ^d   Akhavan, Shahab ^e   Zahn, Dietrich R T ^d   Demir, Hilmi Volkan ^e,f   Eychmüller, Alexander ^a  

^a CENTER FOR ADVANCING ELECTRONICS DRESDEN CFAED   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c IFW Dresden   (Germany)

^d CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LIGANDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS; CONCENTRATION RANGES; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; PBSE NANOCRYSTALS; PBSE QUANTUM DOTS; SATURATION REGIME; STABLE DISPERSIONS; TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS;

SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84935030051     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00793     Document Type: Article

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