Magneto-optical properties of trions in non-blinking charged nanocrystals reveal an acoustic phonon bottleneck

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fernée, Mark J ^a,b   Sinito, Chiara ^a,b   Louyer, Yann ^a   Potzner, Christian ^c   Nguyen, Tich Lam ^c   Mulvaney, Paul ^c   Tamarat, Philippe ^a,b   Lounis, Brahim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b Laboratoire Photonique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SELENIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; QUANTUM DOT;

NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON; ENERGY; IONIZATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETISM; NANOENGINEERING; PHONON; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84871817503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2300     Document Type: Article

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