Dual-color electroluminescence from dot-in-bulk nanocrystals

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 486-494

  Brovelli, Sergio ^a   Bae, Wan Ki ^b   Galland, Christophe ^b,c   Giovanella, Umberto ^d   Meinardi, Francesco ^a   Klimov, Victor I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

core shell heterostructure; dual emission; electroluminescence; light emitting diode; Nanocrystal quantum dot; surface defect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894199282     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl403478s     Document Type: Article

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