Tunability Limit of Photoluminescence in Colloidal Silicon Nanocrystals

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wen, Xiaoming ^a   Zhang, Pengfei ^a   Smith, Trevor A ^b   Anthony, Rebecca J ^c   Kortshagen, Uwe R ^c   Yu, Pyng ^d   Feng, Yu ^a   Shrestha, Santosh ^a   Coniber, Gavin ^a   Huang, Shujuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84937459520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12469     Document Type: Article

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