Unraveling the exciton quenching mechanism of quantum dots on antimony-doped SnO2 films by transient absorption and single dot fluorescence spectroscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1599-1608

  Song, Nianhui ^a   Zhu, Haiming ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a   Huang, Zhuangqun ^a   Wu, David ^a   Lian, Tianquan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blinking dynamics; charged QDs; interfacial charge transfer; quantum dots; single particle spectroscopy; transient absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AUGER RECOMBINATION; CDSE/CDS; CHARGED QDS; CONDUCTING SUBSTRATES; CORRELATED FLUCTUATIONS; DOPED TIN OXIDES; ELECTRON TRANSFER; EMISSION INTENSITY; ENSEMBLE-AVERAGED; EXCITED-STATE DYNAMICS; EXCITON QUENCHING; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; N-DOPED; SINGLE PARTICLE SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE QD; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

CHARGE TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TIN; TIN OXIDES; ZINC SULFIDE;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84874406433     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3054494     Document Type: Article

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