Hypervalent surface interactions for colloidal stability and doping of silicon nanocrystals
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Hypervalent surface interactions for colloidal stability and doping of silicon nanocrystals
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals have attracted attention for cost-effective, solution-based deposition of quantum-confined thin films for optoelectronics. However, two significant challenges must be addressed before practical nanocrystal-based devices can be realized. The first is coping with the ligands that terminate the nanocrystal surfaces. Though ligands provide the colloidal stabilit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Communications
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3197