Anomalous size-dependent decay of low-energy luminescence from PbS quantum dots in colloidal solution

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8913-8921

  Ushakova, Elena V ^a   Litvin, Aleksandr P ^a   Parfenov, Peter S ^a   Fedorov, Anatoly V ^a   Artemyev, Mikhail ^b   Prudnikau, Anatoly V ^b   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^c   Baranov, Alexander V ^a  

^a ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

in gap electronic state; near infrared; PbS quantum dots; phonon induced transitions; photoluminescence decay; quantum transition dynamics; size dependence

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS; DECAY TIME; LOW ENERGIES; LUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEAR INFRARED; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE DECAY; QUANTUM TRANSITIONS; ROOM-TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SIZE DEPENDENCE;

PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

LEAD; LEAD SELENIDE; NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; LEAD; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84867775589     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3029106     Document Type: Article

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