Ultranarrow and widely tunable Mn2+-induced photoluminescence from single Mn-doped nanocrystals of ZnS-CdS alloys

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 26, 2013, Pages

  Hazarika, Abhijit ^a   Layek, Arunasish ^b   De, Suman ^b   Nag, Angshuman ^a   Debnath, Saikat ^c   Mahadevan, Priya ^c   Chowdhury, Arindam ^b   Sarma, D D ^a,d,e  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^c S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

^d NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; EMISSION MEASUREMENT; ENERGY WINDOWS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; SINGLE NANOCRYSTALS; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; WIDELY TUNABLE; ZNS-CDS ALLOY;

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CERIUM ALLOYS; MANGANESE; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; ZINC SULFIDE;

NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS;

EID: 84879610866     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.267401     Document Type: Article

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