Distance-engineered plasmon-enhanced light harvesting in CdSe quantum dots

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 3527-3533

  Jin, Shengye ^a,c   Demarco, Erica ^c   Pellin, Michael J ^b,c   Farha, Omar K ^c   Wiederrecht, Gary P ^a,c   Hupp, Joseph T ^b,c  

^a Materials Science Division   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

atomic layer deposition; distance controlled; plasmon enhanced fluorescence; quantum dots; silver nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; DISTANCE-CONTROLLED; ENHANCEMENT EFFECTS; EXCITON LIFETIME; PARTICLE SEPARATION DISTANCE; PHOTOABSORPTIONS; PHOTON WAVELENGTH; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; ENERGY CONVERSION; FLUORESCENCE; HARVESTING; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR ENERGY;

SILVER;

EID: 84886020598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401801v     Document Type: Article

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