Towards non-blinking colloidal quantum dots

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 659-664

  Mahler, Benoit ^a   Spinicelli, Piernicola ^b   Buil, Stéphanie ^c   Quelin, Xavier ^c   Hermier, Jean Pierre ^b,c   Dubertret, Benoit ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; FLUOROPHORES; MOLECULES; NANOCRYSTALS;

ACQUISITION RATES; BLINKING STATISTICS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; CORE-SHELL QUANTUM DOTS; FLUOROPHORE EMISSION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 49249139610     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2222     Document Type: Article

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