Background limited mid-infrared photodetection with photovoltaic HgTe colloidal quantum dots

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 25, 2015, Pages

  Guyot Sionnest, Philippe ^a   Roberts, John Andris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BACKGROUND LIMITEDS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; COOLED DEVICES; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; PHOTO DETECTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC RESPONSE; SPECIFIC DETECTIVITY;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 84953294678     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4938135     Document Type: Article

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