Probing the interactions of single CdSe quantum dots with their local environment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4456, Issue , 2001, Pages 31-38

  Koberling, Felix ^a   Mews, Alf ^a   Potapova, Inga ^a   Basché, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cadmium selenide; Fluorescence intermittency; Fluorescence microscopy; Oxygen quenching; Single semiconductor quantum dots

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; ZINC SULFIDE;

CADMIUM SELENIDE; FLUORESCENCE BLINKING; FLUORESCENCE INTERMITTENCY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; OXYGEN QUENCHING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0035765440     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449535     Document Type: Conference Paper

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