Light-induced charged and trap states in colloidal nanocrystals detected by variable pulse rate photoluminescence spectroscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 229-238

  Saba, Michele ^a   Aresti, Mauro ^a   Quochi, Francesco ^a   Marceddu, Marco ^a   Loi, Maria Antonietta ^b   Huang, Jing ^c   Talapin, Dmitri V ^c   Mura, Andrea ^a   Bongiovanni, Giovanni ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Chimica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

colloidal nanocrystals; photoluminescence; traps; ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHARGE ACCUMULATION; CHARGE TRAP; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; EMISSION YIELDS; FREE CHARGE; NANOEMITTERS; PHOTOCHARGING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; PICOSECONDS; PULSE RATE; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; RANDOM FLUCTUATION; SINGLE-PULSE; SPECTROGRAMS; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TRAP STATE; TRAPS; ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY;

CHARGE TRAPPING; DYNAMICS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872858989     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305031k     Document Type: Article

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