Measuring electron and hole transfer in core/shell nanoheterostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6016-6024

  Chuang, Chi Hung ^a   Doane, Tennyson L ^a   Lo, Shun S ^b   Scholes, Gregory D ^b   Burda, Clemens ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

charge transfer; core shell quantum dots; electron hole relaxation; femtosecond transient absorption; Marcus theory; type II heterostructure

Indexed keywords

CDTE; CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; CORE/SHELL; ELECTRON TRANSFER; EXCITED ELECTRONS; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; HOLE DYNAMICS; HOLE TRANSFER; MARCUS THEORY; NANO-HETEROSTRUCTURES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE LIFETIME; PUMP WAVELENGTH; RELAXATION RATES; SPECTRAL EMISSION; STEADY-STATE SPECTRA; SUBPICOSECOND; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSFER RATES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; ULTRA-FAST;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; EXCITED STATES; ION EXCHANGE; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 79961067404     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201788f     Document Type: Conference Paper

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