High efficiency and nearly cubic power dependence of below-band-edge photoluminescence in water-soluble, copperdoped ZnSe/ZnS quantum dots

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5715-5720

  Xing, Guichuan ^a   Ji, Wei ^a   Zheng, Yuangang ^b   Ying, Jackie Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SULFIDE; WATER; ZINC DERIVATIVE; ZINC SELENIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; COPPER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM DOTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFIDES; WATER; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

COPPER COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BAND EDGE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; CORE SHELL QUANTUM DOTS; EXCITATION INTENSITY; NEARLY CUBIC POWER DEPENDENCE;

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 42149109702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005715     Document Type: Article

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