Nature Communications (May 2017)

Optical determination of crystal phase in semiconductor nanocrystals

  • Sung Jun Lim,
  • André Schleife,
  • Andrew M. Smith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14849
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Identifying crystallographic phases in solution is not possible with standard diffraction methods. Here, Limet al. demonstrate the in situidentification of cubic and hexagonal phases of cadmium selenide nanocrystals using optical methods based on first-principles electronic theory.