Quantum-confined stark effect in single cdSe nanocrystallite quantum dots

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5346, 1997, Pages 2114-2117

  Empedocles, S A ^a   Bawendi, M G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0031472139     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5346.2114     Document Type: Article

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28. S.A.E. benefited from a Department of Defense graduate fellowship. This work was supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Sloan Foundation. This research was funded in part by the NSF-Materials Research Science and Engineering Center program (DMR-94-00034). We thank the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory (NSF-CHE-93-04251) for support and for allowing use of its facilities.