Red shift in the photoluminescence of colloidal carbon quantum dots induced by photon reabsorption

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Wenxia ^a   Dai, Dejian ^a   Chen, Xifang ^a   Guo, Xiaoxiao ^a   Fan, Jiyang ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON QUANTUM DOTS; LUMINESCENCE OF INORGANIC SOLIDS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; RED SHIFT; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; EMISSION COLOR; INFRARED SPECTRAL; LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; MODEL-BASED OPC; OXYGEN ATOM; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; ULTRA-HIGH;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84896790982     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4867487     Document Type: Article

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