Single-dot microscopy and spectroscopy for comprehensive study of colloidal nanocrystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2024-2031

  Vanmaekelbergh, Daniel ^a   Casavola, Marianna ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC IMAGING; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DYNAMIC FEATURES; ELECTRICAL SPECTROSCOPY; INHOMOGENEOUS BROADENING; LATTICE PHONONS; NANOCRYSTALLINES; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE DOT SPECTROSCOPY;

EXPERIMENTS; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 80051931219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200713j     Document Type: Article

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