A multi-timescale map of radiative and nonradiative decay pathways for excitons in CdSe quantum dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2026-2035

  Knowles, Kathryn E ^a   McArthur, Eric A ^a   Weiss, Emily A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

charge carrier trapping; photoluminescence upconversion; quantum dot; radiative recombination; time correlated single photon counting; transient absorption

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIER TRAPPING; QUANTUM DOT; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHARGE CARRIERS; DECAY (ORGANIC); INFRARED DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79952972846     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2002689     Document Type: Article

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