High charge mobility in two-dimensional percolative networks of PbSe quantum dots connected by atomic bonds

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Evers, Wiel H ^a,b   Schins, Juleon M ^a   Aerts, Michiel ^a   Kulkarni, Aditya ^a   Capiod, Pierre ^c   Berthe, Maxime ^c   Grandidier, Bruno ^c   Delerue, Christophe ^c   Van Der Zant, Herre S J ^b   Van Overbeek, Carlo ^d   Peters, Joep L ^d   Vanmaekelbergh, Daniel ^d   Siebbeles, Laurens D A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE GLYCOL; LEAD; NANOWIRE; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIDE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE;

CHEMICAL BONDING; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; LIGAND; MOBILITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERCOLATION; PROBE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONDUCTANCE; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXCITATION; NOISE; OSCILLATION; PHOTON; QUANTUM YIELD; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THICKNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84942163085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9195     Document Type: Article

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