Nanocrystal shape and the mechanism of exciton spin relaxation

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1765-1771

  Scholes, Gregory D ^a   Kim, Jeongho ^a   Wong, Cathy Y ^a   Huxter, Vanessa M ^a   Nair, P Sreekumari ^a   Fritz, Karolina P ^a   Kumar, Sandeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EXCITONS; POLARIZATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

ELECTRONIC COUPLING MATRIX; EXCITON STATES; SPIN RELAXATION; ULTRAFAST TRANSIENT GRATING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPIN LABELING;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN LABELS; SULFIDES;

EID: 33748324753     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl061414e     Document Type: Article

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