Colloidal quantum dots as saturable fluorophores

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8778-8782

  Schwartz, Osip ^a   Tenne, Ron ^a   Levitt, Jonathan M ^a   Deutsch, Zvicka ^a   Itzhakov, Stella ^a   Oron, Dan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

fluorophore photostability; quantum dot blinking; saturable fluorescence

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; DECAY TIME; LOW REPETITION RATE; OPTICAL SATURATION; PHOTO-DAMAGE; PHOTO-STABILITY; REPETITION RATE; TRANSIENT STATE; UNDER PULSED EXCITATIONS;

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; PHOTOBLEACHING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

FLUOROPHORES;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING;

COLLOIDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84867824446     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302551v     Document Type: Article

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