Luminescence of colloidal cdse/zns nanoparticles: High sensitivity to solvent phase transitions

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Antipov, Andrei ^a   Bell, Matt ^a   Yasar, Mesut ^a   Mitin, Vladimir ^a   Scharmach, William ^b   Swihart, Mark ^b   Verevkin, Aleksandr ^a   Sergeev, Andrei ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MELTING POINT; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CDSE/ZNS; CORE/SHELL; ENERGY PEAKS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE INTERVALS;

SOLS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 82655175801     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-142     Document Type: Article

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