Building devices from colloidal quantum dots

Science

Volumn 353, Issue 6302, 2016, Pages

  Kagan, Cherie R ^a   Lifshitz, Efrat ^b   Sargent, Edward H ^c   Talapin, Dmitri V ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT;

COLLOID; DESIGN METHOD; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MANUFACTURING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; COLLOID; COST; CRYSTAL; DYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; ELECTRONICS; FILM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE; MOTION; OPTICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84984920092     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac5523     Document Type: Article

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