Bright, long-lived and coherent excitons in carbon nanotube quantum dots

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 502-505

  Hofmann, Matthias S ^a   Glückert, Jan T ^a   Noé, Jonathan ^a   Bourjau, Christian ^a   Dehmel, Raphael ^a,b   Högele, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTROSPINNING; EXCITONS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL LATTICES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN DYNAMICS; YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE QUANTUM DOTS; ELECTRON SPIN COHERENCE; EXCITON LOCALIZATION; MECHANICAL DEGREES; MECHANICAL RESONANCE; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; RADIATIVE EXCITONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; QUANTUM DOT;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; OPTICS; PHONON; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD;

EID: 84880210431     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.119     Document Type: Article

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