Control of exciton spin relaxation by electron-hole decoupling in type-II nanocrystal heterostructures

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4007-4013

  He, Jun ^a   Lo, Shun S ^a   Kim, Jeongho ^a   Scholes, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; CRYSTALS; ELECTRONS; EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ION EXCHANGE; NANOCRYSTALS; NANORODS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

CDSE NANOCRYSTALS; CDTE; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; ELECTRON HOLES; ELECTRON SPIN FLIPS; ELECTRON-HOLE EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS; ELECTRON-SPIN RELAXATIONS; EXCITON FINE STRUCTURES; EXCITON RELAXATIONS; EXCITON SPIN RELAXATIONS; HETEROSTRUCTURES; HOLE DENSITIES; HOLE-SPIN RELAXATIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDES; RELAXATION TIME CONSTANTS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; TRANSIENT GRATING TECHNIQUES; TYPE II; ULTRA FASTS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 61649099298     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl802668s     Document Type: Article

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