Investigation of fluorescence emission from CdSe nanorods in PMMA and P3HT/PMMA films

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 18818-18828

  Sarkany, Lorinc ^a   Wasylenko, Jenna M ^b   Roy, Santanu ^a   Higgins, Daniel A ^a   Elles, Christopher G ^b   Chikan, Viktor ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND-EDGE EMISSION INTENSITY; CONDUCTION BAND ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE INTERMITTENCY; INSTRUMENT RESPONSE TIME; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); ULTRAFAST ELECTRON TRANSFER; ULTRAFAST TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ESTERS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LASER RADIATION;

NANORODS;

EID: 84884575102     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp404585j     Document Type: Article

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