Two-photon-induced blue shift of core and shell optical transitions in colloidal CdSe/CdS quasi-type II quantum rods

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2443-2452

  Allione, Marco ^a   Ballester, Ana ^b   Li, Hongbo ^a   Comin, Alberto ^a   Movilla, José L ^b   Climente, Juan I ^b   Manna, Liberato ^a   Moreels, Iwan ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

effective mass approximation; II VI nanocrystals; k p calculations; optical selection rules; quantum dots; two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; CORE/SHELL NANOCRYSTALS; EFFECTIVE MASS APPROXIMATION; ELECTRON WAVE FUNCTIONS; II-VI NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL SELECTION RULES; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; TWO-PHOTON LUMINESCENCE;

ANISOTROPY; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84875673865     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3057559     Document Type: Article

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