Power-law intermittency of single emitters

Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 272-284

  Cichos, F ^a   von Borczyskowski, C ^b   Orrit, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blinking; Charge transfer; II VI semiconductors; Intermittency; Luminescence; Power law; Quantum dots; Random walk; Self trapping; Silicon; Single molecules; Single semiconductor nanocrystals; Stretched kinetics; Traps

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; IONIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON; SWITCHING;

SELF-TRAPPING; SINGLE MOLECULES; SINGLE SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; STRETCHED KINETICS;

LUMINESCENCE;

NANOCRYSTAL; SILICON;

BLEACHING; FLUORESCENCE; IONIZATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PYROLYSIS; REVIEW; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 35548985766     PISSN: 13590294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2007.07.012     Document Type: Review

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