A common mechanism underlies the dark fraction formation and fluorescence blinking of quantum dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1167-1175

  Durisic, Nela ^a   Wiseman, Paul W ^a   Grütter, Peter ^a   Heyes, Colin D ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy diffusion; Hole trapping; Intermittency; Nanoparticle; Power law dynamics; TIRF microscopy

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

ENERGY DIFFUSION; HOLE TRAPPING; INTERMITTENCY; POWER-LAW; TIRF MICROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ILLUMINATION; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 66949122762     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800684z     Document Type: Article

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