Controlling the influence of Auger recombination on the performance of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bae, Wan Ki ^a,b   Park, Young Shin ^a   Lim, Jaehoon ^c   Lee, Donggu ^c   Padilha, Lazaro A ^a,d   McDaniel, Hunter ^a   Robel, Istvan ^a   Lee, Changhee ^c   Pietryga, Jeffrey M ^a   Klimov, Victor I ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

COLLOID; ELECTRON; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; AUGER RECOMBINATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84892418299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3661     Document Type: Article

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