Exciton superposition states in CdSe nanocrystals measured using broadband two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 880-886

  Turner, Daniel B ^a   Hassan, Yasser ^a   Scholes, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

electron phonon coupling; electronic coherence; femtosecond dynamics; nanocrystals; quantum dots; Two dimensional spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BIEXCITONS; CDSE NANOCRYSTALS; COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; CUBIC PHASE; DECOHERENCE TIME; EIGENSTATES; ELECTRON HOLE; ELECTRON PHONON COUPLINGS; ELECTRONIC COHERENCE; FEMTOSECOND DYNAMICS; IN-FIELD; INHOMOGENEOUS BROADENING; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM DOT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTROSCOPIC SIGNATURES; SUPERPOSITION STATE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPIES;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXCITONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

NANOCRYSTALS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; NANOPARTICLE; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COLLOIDS; NANOPARTICLES; QUANTUM THEORY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84856957145     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2039502     Document Type: Article

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