Quantum Mazes: Luminescent Labyrinthine Semiconductor Nanocrystals Having a Narrow Emission Spectrum

ACS Nano

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-347

  De Paoli Lacerda, Silvia H ^a   Douglas, Jack F ^a   Hudson, Steven D ^a   Roy, Marc ^a   Johnson, Jerainne M ^a   Becker, Matthew L ^a   Karim, Alamgir ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CdSe; Confinement; Exciton localization; Labrynthine solidification patterns; Luminescence; Potential directed pattern formation; Quantum dots

Indexed keywords

CDSE; EXCITON LOCALIZATION; LABRYNTHINE SOLIDIFICATION PATTERNS; PATTERN FORMATION; QUANTUM DOT;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FILMS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUIDS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC SULFIDE;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 79955927941     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn700111c     Document Type: Article

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