Growth of Large-Size SnS Thin Crystals Driven by Oriented Attachment and Applications to Gas Sensors and Photodetectors

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 9545-9551

  Wang, Jun ^a   Lian, Gang ^a,b   Xu, Zhenghao ^a   Fu, Chen ^a   Lin, Zhaojun ^a   Li, Liyi ^b   Wang, Qilong ^a   Cui, Deliang ^a   Wong, Ching Ping ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

gas sensors; oriented attachment; photodetectors; quantum dots; thin crystals; tin sulfide

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; GAS DETECTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; DEFECT ANNIHILATION; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LOW DETECTION LIMIT; ORIENTED ATTACHMENT; SOLVOTHERMAL REACTIONS; THIN CRYSTAL; TIN SULFIDE;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 84966269394     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01485     Document Type: Article

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