Excitation-wavelength dependence of fluorescence intermittency in CdSe nanorods

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2143-2153

  Knappenberger Jr , Kenneth L ^a   Wong, Daryl B ^a   Xu, Wei ^a   Schwartzberg, Adam M ^a   Wolcott, Abraham ^b   Zhang, Jin Z ^b   Leone, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CdSe nanorod; Fluorescence intermittency; Ionic liquids; Photon antibunching; Single molecule; Trap state quenching

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRAPPING; ENERGY GAP; EXCITATION ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE; GALLIUM ALLOYS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; LIGHT EMISSION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LUMINESCENCE; NANORODS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CDSE NANOROD; FLUORESCENCE INTERMITTENCY; PHOTON ANTIBUNCHING; SINGLE MOLECULE; TRAP-STATE QUENCHING;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; NANOTUBE; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 56849088366     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800421g     Document Type: Article

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