Electronic properties
Inorganic nanoparticles

Quantum effects are most apparent when studying the electronic and optical properties of nanosystems. Nanosystems may have one or more nanometric dimensions. The characteristic length at which nanomaterial-specific properties appear is generally of the order of 10 nm or less. It is also possible to create a mesoscopic structure in which one, two or three dimensions are comparable to or smaller than this characteristic length L _c . The result is a system of dimension d = 2, 1 or 0.

When only one dimension is smaller than L _c ...