From Impurity Doping to Metallic Growth in Diffusion Doping: Properties and Structure of Silver-Doped InAs Nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 10790-10800

  Amit, Yorai ^a,b   Li, Yuanyuan ^c   Frenkel, Anatoly I ^c   Banin, Uri ^a,b  

^a Institute of Chemistry   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

colloidal nanocrystals; EXAFS; impurity doping; solubility limit; XAFS; XANES

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; IMPURITIES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SILVER; SOLUBILITY; X RAY ABSORPTION;

COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; EXAFS; IMPURITY DOPING; SOLUBILITY LIMITS; XAFS; XANES;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 84948446482     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03044     Document Type: Article

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