Manipulating coupling between a single semiconductor quantum dot and single gold nanoparticle

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1049-1054

  Ratchford, Daniel ^a   Shafiei, Farbod ^a   Kim, Suenne ^a   Gray, Stephen K ^b   Li, Xiaoqin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

blinking; hybrid nanostructures; Nanomanipulation; photoluminescence; plasmonics; semiconductor nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

BLINKING; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOMANIPULATIONS; PLASMONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; GOLD; MICROMANIPULATORS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PLASMONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 79952595796     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl103906f     Document Type: Article

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