Shape-dependent two-photon absorption in semiconductor nanocrystals

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 13140-13150

  Feng, Xiaobo ^a   Ji, Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); NANOCRYSTALS; NANORODS; NANOSPHERES; PHOTONS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

ANALYTICAL THEORY; DEGREE OF SYMMETRY; EFFECTIVE MASS APPROXIMATION; LATERAL DIMENSION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; TPA CROSS SECTIONS; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; NANOSPHERE; QUANTUM DOT; SULFIDE;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOSPHERES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOTS; SULFIDES;

EID: 67749137412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013140     Document Type: Article

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