Energy transfer in colloidal CdTe quantum dot nanoclusters

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24486-24494

  Higgins, Clare ^a   Lunz, Manuela ^a   Bradley, A Louise ^a   Gerard, Valerie A ^a   Byrne, Stephen ^a   Yurii K Gun'ko, ^a   Lesnyak, Vladimir ^b   Gaponi, Nikolai ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; NANOCLUSTERS; SOLUTIONS;

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CDTE; CLUSTER FORMATIONS; CONCENTRATION DEPENDENCE; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; DIFFERENT SIZES; DONOR CONCENTRATIONS; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; MIXED SOLUTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM DOTS; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER; TIME-RESOLVED;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 78649715059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024486     Document Type: Article

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