Optical quenching of photoconductivity in CdSe single nanowires via waveguiding excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10880-10885

  Gu, Fuxing ^a   Wang, Pan ^a   Yu, Huakang ^a   Guo, Bing ^a   Tong, Limin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DEFECTS; NANOWIRES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOELECTRICITY; WAVEGUIDES;

BACKGROUND LIGHT; DEEP-LEVEL DEFECTS; EXCITATION POWER; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS; OPTICAL QUENCHING; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTO DETECTION; QUENCHING EFFECT; RESPONSIVITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SINGLE NANOWIRES; WAVE-GUIDING;

QUENCHING;

EID: 79957588416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010880     Document Type: Article

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