Coherent acoustic phonons in colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal superlattices

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1163-1169

  Poyser, Caroline L ^a   Czerniuk, Thomas ^b   Akimov, Andrey ^a   Diroll, Benjamin T ^c,f   Gaulding, E Ashley ^d   Salasyuk, Alexey S ^e   Kent, Anthony J ^a   Yakovlev, Dmitri R ^b,e   Bayer, Manfred ^b,e   Murray, Christopher B ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic phonons; Colloidal nanoparticles; Nanocrystal superlattice; Speed of sound; Thin film

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTICS; COLLOIDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; THIN FILMS;

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; COHERENT ACOUSTIC PHONONS; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL NANOPARTICLES; COLLOIDAL SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; PICOSECOND ACOUSTICS; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 84989315143     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b06465     Document Type: Article

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