Semiconductor quantum dots and quantum dot arrays and applications of multiple exciton generation to third-generation photovoltaic solar cells

AJ Nozik, MC Beard, JM Luther, M Law… - Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Semiconductors show dramatic quantization effects when charge carriers (electrons and
holes) are confined by potential barriers to small regions of space where the dimensions of …

Chemistry and properties of nanocrystals of different shapes

C Burda, X Chen, R Narayanan, MA El-Sayed - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
The field of nanocatalysis (in which nanoparticles are used to catalyze reactions) has
undergone an exponential growth during the past decade. Two types of studies have been …

Spectroscopy and hot electron relaxation dynamics in semiconductor quantum wells and quantum dots

AJ Nozik - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Photoexcitation of a semiconductor with photons above the semiconductor band
gap creates electrons and holes that are out of equilibrium. The rates at which the …

Critical layer thickness for self-assembled InAs islands on GaAs

D Leonard, K Pond, PM Petroff - Physical Review B, 1994 - APS
Using atomic force microscopy (AFM), we have directly observed the progression of surface
morphology of InAs deposited by molecular-beam epitaxy on GaAs (100). InAs self …

Intraband relaxation in CdSe quantum dots

P Guyot-Sionnest, M Shim, C Matranga, M Hines - Physical Review B, 1999 - APS
The relaxation of the 1 P to 1 S electronic states of CdSe semiconductor nanocrystals is
followed by infrared pump-probe spectroscopy. Fast (1 ps) and slow (> 200 ps) components …

[图书][B] Semiconductor and metal nanocrystals: synthesis and electronic and optical properties

VI Klimov - 2003 - books.google.com
The vast technological potential of nanocrystalline materials, as well as current intense
interest in the physics and chemistry of nanoscale phenomena, has led to explosive growth …

[图书][B] Introduction to nanoscale science and technology

M Di Ventra, S Evoy, JR Heflin Jr - 2004 - Springer
Nanoscale science and technology is a young and burgeoning field that encompasses
nearly every discipline of science and engineering. With rapid advances in areas such as …

Energy relaxation by multiphonon processes in InAs/GaAs quantum dots

R Heitz, M Veit, NN Ledentsov, A Hoffmann, D Bimberg… - Physical Review B, 1997 - APS
Carrier relaxation and recombination in self-organized InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QD's) is
investigated by photoluminescence (PL), PL excitation (PLE), and time-resolved PL …

Exciton dynamics in semiconductor nanocrystals

DA Wheeler, JZ Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This review article provides an overview of recent advances in the study and understanding
of dynamics of excitons in semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) or quantum dots (QDs) …

MBE and MOCVD growth and properties of self-assembling quantum dot arrays in III-V semiconductor structures

PM Petroff, SP DenBaars - Superlattices and microstructures, 1994 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review our latest developments on the growth and properties of self-
assembling quantum dot structures. The self-assembling growth technique which was …