Charge transport and localization in atomically coherent quantum dot solids

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 557-563

  Whitham, Kevin ^a   Yang, Jun ^a   Savitzky, Benjamin H ^a   Kourkoutis, Lena F ^a   Wise, Frank ^a   Hanrath, Tobias ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND LENGTH; CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LATTICE CONSTANTS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMIC BOND LENGTHS; DELOCALIZED ELECTRON; ELECTRON LOCALIZATIONS; QUANTUM DOT SOLIDS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84976232058     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4576     Document Type: Article

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