Temperature-Dependent Optical Properties of PbS/CdS Core/Shell Quantum Dot Thin Films: Probing the Wave Function Delocalization

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 30, 2015, Pages 17480-17486

  Fang, Hong Hua ^a   Balazs, Daniel M ^a   Protesescu, Loredana ^b,c   Kovalenko, Maksym V ^b,c   Loi, Maria Antonietta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; MONOLAYERS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE; THIN FILMS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

CONDUCTION BAND OFFSET; ELECTRONIC WAVE FUNCTIONS; EXCITON RECOMBINATION; LARGE-AREA SOLAR CELLS; QUANTUM DOT THIN FILMS; SOLUTION PROCESSABILITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TYPE II BAND ALIGNMENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84938245387     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b05890     Document Type: Article

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