Controlling Charge Carrier Overlap in Type-II ZnSe/ZnS/CdS Core-Barrier-Shell Quantum Dots

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 2590-2597

  Boldt, Klaus ^a,c   Ramanan, Charusheela ^b   Chanaewa, Alina ^b   Werheid, Matthias ^a   Eychmüller, Alexander ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

cation exchange; mixed states; overlap integral; potential barrier; transient absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MONOLAYERS; NANOCRYSTALS; POSITIVE IONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WAVE FUNCTIONS; ZINC SULFIDE;

CATION EXCHANGES; MIXED STATE; OVERLAP INTEGRALS; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

DIFFUSION BARRIERS;

EID: 84947596491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01144     Document Type: Article

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