Colloidal nanocrystals embedded in macrocrystals: Robustness, photostability, and color purity

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5348-5354

  Otto, Tobias ^a   Müller, Marcus ^a   Mundra, Paul ^a   Lesnyak, Vladimir ^a   Demir, Hilmi Volkan ^b,c   Gaponik, Nikolai ^a   Eychmüller, Alexander ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

color conversion; composite; mixed crystals; nanocrystals; Quantum dots; white LED

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; COLOR CONVERSIONS; COLOR PURITY; IONIC CRYSTALS; IONIC SALTS; MIXED CRYSTALS; PHOTO-STABILITY; STRONG LUMINESCENCE; WHITE LED; WHITE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

COLOR;

EID: 84867472220     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl3027444     Document Type: Article

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