Novel spectral decay dynamics of hot excitons in PbSe nanocrystals: A tunable femtosecond pump-hyperspectral probe study

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 49, 2013, Pages 26342-26350

  Gdor, Itay ^a   Yang, Chunfan ^a   Yanover, Diana ^b   Sachs, Hanan ^a   Lifshitz, Efrat ^b   Ruhman, Sanford ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION FEATURES; EXCITON COOLING; EXCITON THERMALIZATION; MULTIEXCITON GENERATION; PBSE NANOCRYSTALS; PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL CORRELATION; TRANSIENT SPECTRA;

BLEACHING; CLEANING; EXCITONS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS;

ABSORPTION COOLING;

EID: 84890534204     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp409530z     Document Type: Article

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