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Penghui Yin1, Manu Hegde1, Natalie S Garnet1

  • 1Department of Chemistry , University of Waterloo , 200 University Avenue West , Waterloo , Ontairo N2L 3G1 , Canada.

Nano Letters
|August 27, 2019
PubMed
Summary

Researchers controlled magnetic-field-induced excitonic splitting in titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanocrystals by altering their shape. This tuning of nanocrystal morphology allows precise control over electronic properties for quantum technology applications.

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Zeeman splittingexchange couplingmagnetic circular dichroismnanocrystal morphologyoxygen vacancysemiconductor plasmonics

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