Blinking suppression of single quantum dots in agarose gel

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ko, H C ^a,b   Yuan, C T ^c   Lin, S H ^d   Tang, Jau ^c  

^a ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE GEL; BLINKING STATISTICS; CDSE/ZNS QUANTUM DOTS; DARK STATE; ELECTRON TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE BLINKING; POWER-LAW; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT;

GELS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 75749120589     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3280386     Document Type: Article

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