Ultrafast excitation energy transfer in small semiconducting carbon nanotube aggregates

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 4265-4273

  Lüer, Larry ^a,b   Crochet, Jared ^c,d   Hertel, Tobias ^c   Cerullo, Giulio ^b   Lanzani, Guglielmo ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d CENTER FOR INTEGRATED NANOTECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

aggregates; carbon nanotubes; chirality enrichment; excitation energy transfer; excitons; femtosecond spectroscopy; optoelectronics

Indexed keywords

EXCITON TRANSITIONS; EXCITONIC TRANSITION; FEMTOSECOND SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANT EXCITATION; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; TIME RESOLUTION; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; ULTRAFAST EXCITATION; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE;

AGGREGATES; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION ENERGY; EXCITONS; PHOTOBLEACHING; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77955540426     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100674h     Document Type: Article

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