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Luminescence of Direct and Indirect Gap Quantum Semiconductor Crystallites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

L. E. Brus
L. E. Brus*
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., 07974
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Semiconductor crystallites (“quantum dots”) small with respect to the bulk exciton Bohr diameter show a three dimensional electronic quantum size effect. Their internal excited electronic states are discrete and shifted to higher energy than the bulk band gap[1,2].

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 272: Symposium O – Chemical Processes in Inorganic Materials: Metal and Semiconductor Clusters , 1992 , 215
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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