Luminescence upconversion in colloidal double quantum dots

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 649-653

  Deutsch, Zvicka ^a   Neeman, Lior ^a   Oron, Dan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; EXCITED STATES; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; RARE EARTHS;

ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DOUBLE QUANTUM DOTS; INTRABAND ABSORPTIONS; OVERALL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING NANOSTRUCTURES; SPECTRAL TUNABILITY; UPCONVERSION NANOCRYSTALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

NANOCRYSTAL; NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT; COLLOID;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ELECTRON; ENERGY; EXCITATION; LUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING;

COLLOIDS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84883744133     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.146     Document Type: Article

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