Semiconducting quantum confined silicon-tin alloyed nanocrystals prepared by ns pulsed laser ablation in water

Nanoscale

Volumn 5, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 6725-6730

  Svrcek V ^a   Mariotti, D ^b   Blackley, R A ^c   Zhou, W Z ^c   Nagai, T ^a   Matsubara, K ^a   Kondo, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LASER ABLATION; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON; TIN;

ALLOYED NANOCRYSTALS; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SYNTHESIS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; ROOM-TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SPATIAL CONFINEMENT; SURFACE ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC FEASIBILITY;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 85014053335     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3nr00891f     Document Type: Article

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