Simple model for the power-law blinking of single semiconductor nanocrystals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 2332021-2332024

  Verberk, Rogier ^a   Van Oijen, Antoine M ^a,b   Orrit, Michel ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DARKNESS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENCE; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLE; POLARIMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0037116187     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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