Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Dimensional crossover in semiconductor nanostructures

  • Matthew P. McDonald,
  • Rusha Chatterjee,
  • Jixin Si,
  • Boldizsár Jankó,
  • Masaru Kuno

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12726
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Nanostructured materials offer a route to tuning the bandgap of a semiconductor. Here, the authors use single particle absorption spectroscopy to investigate bandgap evolution between cadmium selenide nanowires and quantum dots and identify the length at which a nanorod becomes zero-dimensional.