Brightening of excitons in carbon nanotubes on dimensionality modification

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 715-719

  Miyauchi, Yuhei ^a,b   Iwamura, Munechiyo ^a   Mouri, Shinichiro ^a   Kawazoe, Tadashi ^c   Ohtsu, Motoichi ^c   Matsuda, Kazunari ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; EXCITON DYNAMICS; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; LUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; NANOSCALE PHOTONICS; NONRADIATIVE DECAYS; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION; SINGLE-PHOTON EMITTERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; LUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM YIELD;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84883446306     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.179     Document Type: Article

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