Efficient exciton funneling in cascaded PbS quantum dot superstructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 9950-9957

  Xu, Fan ^a   Ma, Xin ^a   Haughn, Chelsea R ^b   Benavides, Jamie ^a   Doty, Matthew F ^b   Cloutier, Sylvain G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

dithiol; exciton funneling; exciton recycling; F rster resonant energy transfer; nanocrystalline solids; photoluminescence; quantum dots

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTOR LAYERS; CASCADED STRUCTURE; DIFFERENT SIZES; DITHIOLS; DONOR LAYERS; EMISSION EFFICIENCIES; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; LIGAND EXCHANGES; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; MULTI-LAYERED; NANOCRYSTALLINE FILMS; NANOCRYSTALLINE SOLIDS; NANOCRYSTALLINES; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; QUANTUM DOT; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER; TRANSFER MECHANISMS;

CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGANDS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM THEORY; RECYCLING; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EXCITONS;

LEAD; LEAD SELENIDE; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATERIALS TESTING;

ENERGY TRANSFER; LEAD; MATERIALS TESTING; QUANTUM DOTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84555163572     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203728t     Document Type: Article

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