Using the Near-field coupling of a sharp tip to tune fluorescence-emission fluctuations during quantum-dot blinking

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Shafran, Eyal ^a   Mangum, Benjamin D ^a,b   Gerton, Jordan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FLUORESCENCE BLINKING; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; INTERNAL STATE; LOW-YIELD; NEAR-FIELD COUPLING; SHARP TIP;

ENERGY TRANSFER; QUANTUM YIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 79961045951     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.037403     Document Type: Article

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