Highly fluorescent, water-soluble, size-tunable gold quantum dots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Zheng, Jie ^a   Zhang, Caiwei ^a   Dickson, Robert M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FERMI LEVEL; GOLD; IONIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OSCILLATIONS; PASSIVATION; PERMITTIVITY;

CAPPING AGENTS; LINEAR CORRELATIONS; NANODOT SOLUTIONS; PROTOPLASMONIC FLUORESCENCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 19444377548     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.077402     Document Type: Article

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