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Nature Materials 5, 861–864 (1 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/nmat1739

Exciton polarizability in semiconductor nanocrystals

Feng Wang , Jie Shan , Mohammad A. Islam , Irving P. Herman , Mischa Bonn & Tony F. Heinz

The response of charge to externally applied electric fields is an important basic property of any material system, as well as one critical for many applications. Here, we examine the behaviour and dynamics of charges fully confined on the nanometre length scale.