Band structure engineering via piezoelectric fields in strained anisotropic CdSe/CdS nanocrystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Christodoulou, Sotirios ^a,b   Rajadell, Fernando ^c   Casu, Alberto ^a   Vaccaro, Gianfranco ^d   Grim, Joel Q ^a   Genovese, Alessandro ^a   Manna, Liberato ^c   Climente, Juan I ^d   Meinardi, Francesco ^e   Rainò, Gabriele ^e   Stöferle, Thilo ^e   Mahrt, Rainer F ^e   Planelles, Josep ^c   Brovelli, Sergio ^d   Moreels, Iwan ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SELENIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOMATERIAL; NANOROD; NANOSHELL;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NANOPARTICLE; PARADIGM SHIFT; PIEZOELECTRICITY; WAVE FIELD;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BAND STRUCTURE ENGINEERING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENGINEERING; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84938263851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8905     Document Type: Article

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