Thermal stability of colloidal InP nanocrystals: Small inorganic ligands boost high-temperature photoluminescence

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 977-985

  Rowland, Clare E ^a   Liu, Wenyong ^b   Hannah, Daniel C ^a   Chan, Maria K Y ^c   Talapin, Dmitri V ^b,c   Schaller, Richard D ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

colloidal nanomaterials; inorganic ligands; InP; PL quenching; semiconductors; static; thermal stability; time resolved photoluminescence; transient absorption

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL NANOMATERIALS; INORGANIC LIGANDS; INP; PL QUENCHING; STATIC; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION;

EXCITONS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84893488421     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405811p     Document Type: Article

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