Universal emission intermittency in quantum dots, nanorods and nanowires

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 519-522

  Frantsuzov, Pavel ^a   Kuno, Masaru ^a   Jankó, Boldizsár ^a,c   Marcus, Rudolph A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; NANORODS; NANOWIRES;

INFINITE STATE; INTERMITTENCY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; TIME-SCALES; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 46649104254     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1001     Document Type: Article

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