Poisson-distributed electron-transfer dynamics from single quantum dots to C60 molecules

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 613-621

  Song, Nianhui ^a   Zhu, Haiming ^a   Jin, Shengye ^a   Zhan, Wei ^b   Lian, Tianquan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fullerene; Interfacial electron transfer; Quantum dots; Single particle spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BINDING PARTNERS; C60 MOLECULES; DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TRANSFER RATES; ELECTRON-TRANSFER; ENSEMBLE-AVERAGED; EXCITON EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; INTERFACIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER; POISSON STATISTIC; QUANTUM DOT; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SINGLE PARTICLE SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE QD; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FULLERENES; MOLECULES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; STATISTICS;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

FULLERENE C60; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; KINETICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FULLERENES; KINETICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 79955079454     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1028828     Document Type: Article

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