Substitutional doping in nanocrystal superlattices

Nature

Volumn 524, Issue 7566, 2015, Pages 450-453

  Cargnello, Matteo ^a,d   Johnston Peck, Aaron C ^b   Diroll, Benjamin T ^a   Wong, Eric ^a   Datta, Bianca ^c   Damodhar, Divij ^c   Doan Nguyen, Vicky V T ^c   Herzing, Andrew A ^b   Kagan, Cherie R ^a,c   Murray, Christopher B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SELENIDE; GOLD; GOLD NANOCRYSTAL; LEAD; LEAD SELENIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; SELENIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CADMIUM; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL; GOLD; LATTICE DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; MAGNETISM; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84940531766     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14872     Document Type: Article

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