Four-fold enhancement of the activation energy for nonradiative decay of excitons in PbSe/CdSe core/shell versus PbSe colloidal quantum dots

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2334-2338

  Abel, Keith A ^a   Qiao, Haijun ^b   Young, Jeff F ^b   Van Veggel, Frank C J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION EXCHANGE REACTIONS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; CORE/SHELL; EMISSION LINES; EXCITON DECAY; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; INDEPENDENT STATE; LINE SHAPE; NON-RADIATIVE; NONRADIATIVE DECAYS; PHOTO-STABILITY; QUANTUM DOTS; SHIFT-AND; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; EXCITONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THICK FILMS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

EID: 77955373393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz1007565     Document Type: Article

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