Suppression of blinking and enhanced exciton emission from individual carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2664-2670

  Ai, Nan ^a   Walden Newman, William ^a   Song, Qiang ^a   Kalliakos, Sokratis ^a   Strauf, Stefan ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

excitons; fluorescence intermittency; power law; single wall carbon nanotubes; spectral diffusion

Indexed keywords

CAVITY MODE; EXCITON EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE INTERMITTENCY; LIGHT EMITTERS; LIGHT-EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY; LOCAL DIELECTRICS; NANO SCALE; NON-CLASSICAL LIGHTS; ON/OFF RATIO; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POWER LAW; PURCELL EFFECT; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; SPECTRAL DIFFUSION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARGE TRANSFER; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; EXCITONS; EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; ION EXCHANGE; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 79955437637     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102885p     Document Type: Article

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