Single-mode tunable laser emission in the single-exciton regime from colloidal nanocrystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Grivas, Christos ^a   Li, Chunyong ^a   Andreakou, Peristera ^a   Wang, Pengfei ^a   Ding, Ming ^a   Brambilla, Gilberto ^a   Manna, Liberato ^b,c   Lagoudakis, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTAL;

COLLOID; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRON; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LASER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLOID; ELECTRON; HYBRID; LASER; OPTICS; REFRACTION INDEX; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84883285363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3376     Document Type: Article

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