Picosecond electron transfer from photosynthetic reaction center protein to GaAs

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2751-2755

  Sepunaru, Lior ^a   Tsimberov, Irena ^b   Forolov, Ludmila ^a   Carmeli, Chanoch ^a   Carmeli, Itai ^b   Rosenwaks, Yossi ^b  

^a Department of Biochemistry ^*  (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND EDGE LUMINESCENCE; COUPLED JUNCTIONS; COVALENTLY BOUND; ELECTRON TRANSFER; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FAST ELECTRON TRANSFER; GAAS; GAAS SURFACES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PICOSECOND; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

ARSENIC; GALLIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYSTEM I;

ARSENIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GALLIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX;

EID: 67650403882     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl901262h     Document Type: Article

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