Colloidal CdSe/CdS dot-in-plate nanocrystals with 2D-polarized emission

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 6741-6750

  Cassette, Elsa ^a   Mahler, Benoît ^a   Guigner, Jean Michel ^b   Patriarche, Gilles ^c   Dubertret, Benoît ^a   Pons, Thomas ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

2D polarization; anisotropic pressure; heavy hole to light hole band splitting; oblate core shell nanocrystals; spontaneous orientation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PRESSURE; CDS; CDSE; CDSE/CDS; CORE/SHELL; CORE/SHELL NANOCRYSTALS; EXCITON FINE STRUCTURE; EXCITONIC ENERGY; HEAVY HOLES; LIGHT HOLES; POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS; POLARIZED EMISSIONS; PRECISE CONTROL; SINGLE NANOCRYSTALS; TWO-DIMENSION; WURTZITES;

ANISOTROPY; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POLARIZATION; ZINC SULFIDE;

NANOCRYSTALS;

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

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CONFORMATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COLLOIDS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFIDES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84865583981     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3024255     Document Type: Article

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