Temperature-tuning of near-infrared monodisperse quantum dot solids at 1.5 μm for controllable Förster energy transfer

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2006-2011

  Bose, Ranojoy ^a   McMillan, James F ^a   Gao, Jie ^a   Rickey, Kelly M ^a   Chen, Charlton J ^a   Talapin, Dmitri V ^b   Murray, Christopher B ^c   Wong, Chee Wei ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE DIPOLES; GROUND-STATE; LEAD SULFIDES; MONODISPERSE; NEAR INFRA REDS; QUANTUM DOTS; QUANTUM-DOT SOLIDS; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFERS; RESONANT TRANSFERS; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENTS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TIME-RESOLVED; TRANSFER RATES;

ENERGY TRANSFER; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TUNING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 58049165385     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl8011243     Document Type: Article

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