Charge transport in strongly coupled quantum dot solids

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1013-1026

  Kagan, Cherie R ^a,b   Murray, Christopher B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSPORT; CHELATION; ELECTRON ABSORPTION; NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLS;

BAND-LIKE TRANSPORTS; COUPLED QUANTUM DOTS; ELECTRONIC TRANSISTORS; FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; QUANTUM-CONFINED STATE; RECORD-BREAKING PERFORMANCE; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

LIGAND; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; QUANTUM DOT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CATION EXCHANGE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ION EXCHANGE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM YIELD; REVIEW; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLID STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE;

EID: 84949183824     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.247     Document Type: Review

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