Multiexciton absorption cross sections of CdSe quantum dots determined by ultrafast spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 3330-3336

  Lenngren, Nils ^a   Garting, Tommy ^a   Zheng, Kaibo ^a   Abdellah, Mohamed ^a,b   Lascoux, Noëlle ^a,c   Ma, Fei ^a,d   Yartsev, Arkady ^a   Žídek, Karel ^a   Pullerits, Tõnu ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

absorption cross sections; CdSe; femtosecond spectroscopy; multiexciton; quantum dots; transient absorption

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; CDSE; FEMTOSECOND SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIEXCITONS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION;

EXPERIMENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ZINC SULFIDE;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84885104742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401522h     Document Type: Article

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