Measurement of a reaction-diffusion crossover in exciton-exciton recombination inside carbon nanotubes using femtosecond optical absorption

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 19, 2013, Pages

  Allam, J ^a   Sajjad, M T ^a   Sutton, R ^a   Litvinenko, K ^a   Wang, Z ^a   Siddique, S ^a   Yang, Q H ^b   Loh, W H ^b   Brown, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT TRANSITION; DIFFUSION LIMITED; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; FEMTOSECONDS; FINITE PROBABILITIES; LOCALIZED EXCITON; NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEM; REACTION DIFFUSION;

FLOCCULATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; REACTION KINETICS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EXCITONS;

EID: 84887555745     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.197401     Document Type: Article

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