Spontaneous spectral diffusion in CdSe quantum dots

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1716-1720

  Fernée, Mark J ^a,b   Plakhotnik, Taras ^c   Louyer, Yann ^a   Littleton, Bradley N ^d   Potzner, Christian ^e   Tamarat, Philippe ^a,b   Mulvaney, Paul ^e   Lounis, Brahim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b Laboratoire Photonique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICORRELATION; CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; EMISSION LINES; FINITE MEMORY; PUMP LASER; SPECTRAL DIFFUSION; SPECTRAL JUMPS; SPECTRAL POSITION;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; NANOCRYSTALS; PUMPING (LASER); RANDOM PROCESSES;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 84863645303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300456h     Document Type: Article

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