Size-correlated spectroscopy and imaging of rare-earth-doped nanocrystals

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2132-2139

  Mehta, Adosh ^a   Thundat, Thomas ^a   Barnes, Michael D ^a   Chhabra, Vishal ^b   Bhargava, Ramesh ^b   Bartko, Andrew P ^c   Dickson, Robert M ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Nanocrystals Technology   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUARTZ; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

NANOCRYSTALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0041882041     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002132     Document Type: Article

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