Two types of luminescence blinking revealed by spectroelectrochemistry of single quantum dots

Nature

Volumn 479, Issue 7372, 2011, Pages 203-207

  Galland, Christophe ^a   Ghosh, Yagnaseni ^a   Steinbrück, Andrea ^a   Sykora, Milan ^a   Hollingsworth, Jennifer A ^a   Klimov, Victor I ^a   Htoon, Han ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

DYE; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EMISSIVITY; FULLERENE; LUMINESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMER; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; B TYPE BLINKING; CONVENTIONAL BLINKING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; LIGHT INTENSITY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY; SURFACE CHARGE;

ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 80855139773     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10569     Document Type: Article

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