Power-law blinking quantum dots: Stochastic and physical models

Advances in Chemical Physics

Volumn 133, Issue PART A, 2006, Pages 327-356

  Margolin, Gennady ^a   Protasenko, Vladimir ^a   Kuno, Masaru ^a   Barkai, Eli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 33749628594     PISSN: 00652385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/0471790265.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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