Engineering the spin-flip limited exciton dephasing in colloidal CdSe/CdS quantum dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5227-5233

  Accanto, Nicolò ^a,b   Masia, Francesco ^a,b   Moreels, Iwan ^c,d,e   Hens, Zeger ^c   Langbein, Wolfgang ^a   Borri, Paola ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

colloidal nanocystals; exciton dephasing; transient four wave mixing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; BAND ALIGNMENTS; CDSE; CDSE/CDS; COLLOIDAL NANOCYSTALS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; CORE DIAMETERS; CORE SIZE; CORE/SHELL; DARK EXCITONS; DELOCALIZATIONS; DEPHASING; ELECTRON WAVE FUNCTIONS; ELECTRON-HOLE EXCHANGE INTERACTION; EXCITON DEPHASING; EXCITON FINE STRUCTURE; EXCITON LIFETIME; EXCITON THERMALIZATION; FINE STRUCTURES; HETERODYNE DETECTION; HIGH QUALITY; PHOTON ECHO TECHNIQUE; PURE-DEPHASING; SHELL THICKNESS; SPECTRAL DIFFUSION; SPIN-FLIP; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TRANSIENT FOUR-WAVE MIXING; ZERO-PHONON LINE; ZINC BLENDE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EXCITONS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; MATERIALS TESTING; SPIN LABELING; TEMPERATURE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COLLOIDS; MATERIALS TESTING; QUANTUM DOTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SPIN LABELS; SULFIDES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84862876869     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300992a     Document Type: Article

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