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Nanocrystals – Nanowires – Nanolayers

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The dimensionality of nanosystems plays an important role in nanoscience and nanotechnology. In nanostructures with 0D macroscopic extension (0D – nanocrystals), 1D macroscopic extension (1D – nanowires), or 2D macroscopic extensions (2D – nanolayers), novel properties emerge compared to macroscopic bulk systems due to quantum confinement, charge quantization, magnetic exchange length, etc. In the case of semiconductor systems, the nanostructures of different dimensionality are often called quantum dots, quantum wires, and quantum wells.

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Schaefer, HE. (2010). Nanocrystals – Nanowires – Nanolayers . In: Nanoscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10559-3_4

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