Hole transfer from single quantum dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 8750-8759

  Song, Nianhui ^a   Zhu, Haiming ^a   Jin, Shengye ^a   Lian, Tianquan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blinking dynamics; hole transfer; quantum dots; single particle spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CDSE/CDS; CHARGE RECOMBINATION PROCESS; CORRELATED FLUCTUATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ENSEMBLE-AVERAGED; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; HOLE TRANSFER; HOLE TRANSFER RATE; PHOTO-INDUCED; POSITIVELY CHARGED; QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE PARTICLE SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE QD; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; TIME CONSTANTS; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; VALENCE-BAND HOLES;

DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC SULFIDE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 81855227399     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202713x     Document Type: Article

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