Orientation of luminescent excitons in layered nanomaterials

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 271-276

  Schuller, Jon A ^a,b,c   Karaveli, Sinan ^a   Schiros, Theanne ^b   He, Keliang ^d   Yang, Shyuan ^b   Kymissis, Ioannis ^b   Shan, Jie ^d   Zia, Rashid ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITONS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

3 ,4 ,9 ,10-PERYLENE-TETRACARBOXYLIC-DIANHYDRIDE; ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; DIPOLE STRENGTHS; EXCITONIC PROPERTIES; INTERLAYER COUPLING; LAYERED MATERIAL; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84876418268     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.20     Document Type: Article

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