Electrical control of Förster energy transfer

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 777-781

  Becker, Klaus ^a   Lupton, John M ^a,d   Müller, Josef ^a   Rogach, Andrey L ^a   Talapin, Dmitri V ^b,c   Weller, Horst ^b   Feldmann, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c Molecular Foundry   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RESONANCE;

EXCITATION ENERGY; NANOPHOTONIC CIRCUITRY; STARK SHIFT;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

EID: 33749988570     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1738     Document Type: Article

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