Three-photon absorption in semiconductor quantum dots: Experiment

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 6999-7005

  Xiaobo, Feng ^a,b   Yu, Long Ang ^a   Jun, He ^a   Ben, Cyrus W J ^a   Hairu, Xu ^a   Wee, Shong Chin ^a   Wei, Ji ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; VALENCE BANDS;

3PA CROSS-SECTIONS; EFFECTIVE-MASS APPROXIMATION; EXCITON BOHR RADIUS; LIGHT FREQUENCY;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SULFIDE; ZINC DERIVATIVE; ZINC SULFIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ABSORPTION; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SULFIDES; TEMPERATURE; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 43849101991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006999     Document Type: Article

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