Bright and color-saturated emission from blue light-emitting diodes based on solution-processed colloidal nanocrystal quantum dots

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3803-3807

  Tan, Zhanao ^a   Zhang, Fan ^a   Zhu, Ting ^a   Xu, Jian ^a   Wang, Andrew Y ^b   Dixon, John D ^b   Li, Nsong ^b   Zhang, Qi ^c   Mohney, Suzanne E ^c   Ruzyllo, Jerzy ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b OCEAN NANOTECH LLC   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL CORES; POLYMER COMPONENTS;

COLLOIDS; LIGHT EMISSION; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ZINC SULFIDE;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

CADMIUM; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SULFUR; ZINC;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; COLOR; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

CADMIUM; COLLOIDS; COLOR; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SOLUTIONS; SULFUR; ZINC;

EID: 38049143724     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl072370s     Document Type: Article

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