Ultrafast hole trapping and relaxation dynamics in p-type CuS nanodisks

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 2671-2675

  Ludwig, John ^a   An, Li ^b   Pattengale, Brian ^a   Kong, Qingyu ^c   Zhang, Xiaoyi ^c   Xi, Pinxian ^b   Huang, Jier ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CuS nanodisks; energy conversion; optical transient absorption spectroscopy; X ray transient absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY CONVERSION; HOLE TRAPS; NANOCRYSTALS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

CARRIER RECOMBINATION; NANODISKS; OPTICAL TRANSIENT; POTENTIAL MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; SUBPICOSECOND TIME SCALE; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; X-RAY TRANSIENTS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84937120934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01078     Document Type: Article

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