The role of ligands in determining the exciton relaxation dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 317-339

  Peterson, Mark D ^a   Cass, Laura C ^a   Harris, Rachel D ^a   Edme, Kedy ^a   Sung, Kimberly ^a   Weiss, Emily A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auger relaxation; charge trapping; electron to vibrational energy transfer; surface chemistry; transient absorption

Indexed keywords

AUGERS; CHARGE TRAPPING; ELECTRONIC COOLING; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITED STATES; EXCITONS; LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RATE CONSTANTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

AUGE RELAXATION; CHARGE-TRAPPING; ELECTRON-TO-VIBRATIONAL ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITON RELAXATION; INTERBAND; NANOCRYSTAL QUANTUM DOTS; RELAXATION DYNAMICS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; VIBRATIONAL ENERGY TRANSFER;

SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

LIGAND; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; LUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ELECTRONS; LIGANDS; LUMINESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84897494061     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040513-103649     Document Type: Article

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