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Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy At Ultra-low Temperatures
Published on: October 9, 2012
Room temperature light emission from the low-dimensional semiconductors AZrPS6 (A = K, Rb, Cs)
Santanu Banerjee1, Jodi M Szarko, Benjamin D Yuhas
1Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|March 31, 2010
Abstract:
The new semiconducting thiophosphate compounds KZrPS(6), RbZrPS(6), and CsZrPS(6) exhibit red light emission at room temperature. The materials have longer photoluminescence lifetimes than most of the inorganic chalcogenide semiconductors. They can be solution processed into thin films for potential device fabrication.
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