Experimental Determination of the Fluorescence Quantum Yield of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1182-1193

  Laverdant, Julien ^a,b   de Marcillac, Willy Daney ^a,b   Barthou, Carlos ^a,b   Chinh, Vu Duc ^c   Schwob, Catherine ^a,b   Coolen, Laurent ^a,b   Benalloul, Paul ^a,b   Nga, Pham Thu ^c   Maitre, Agnés ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Colloidal nanocrystals; Fluorescence; Quantum yield

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; FIGURE OF MERITS; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; II-VI NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL QUALITIES; RHODAMINE 101; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS;

FLUORESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS;

QUANTUM YIELD;

EID: 84887509637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma4071182     Document Type: Article

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