Measurement of the radiative and nonradiative decay rates of single CdSe nanocrystals through a controlled modification of their spontaneous emission

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Brokmann, X ^a   Coolen, L ^a   Dahan, M ^a   Hermier, J P ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FLUORESCENCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

DIELECTRIC INTERFACES; GAUSS-NEWTON METHOD; NONRADIATIVE DECAY RATES; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 19544390698     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.107403     Document Type: Article

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