Studying quantum dot blinking through the addition of an engineered inorganic hole trap

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5084-5090

  Tenne, Ron ^a   Teitelboim, Ayelet ^a   Rukenstein, Pazit ^b   Dyshel, Maria ^a   Mokari, Taleb ^b   Oron, Dan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

"gray" state; blinking; charge transfer; quantum dots; trapped states

Indexed keywords

BLINKING; CHARGE CARRIER TRAPPING; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; GRAY STATE; QUANTUM DOT BLINKING; SWITCHING DYNAMICS; TRAPPED STATE; TUNNELING BARRIER;

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRANSFER; HOLE TRAPS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84879664025     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4017845     Document Type: Article

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