Connecting the dots: The kinetics and thermodynamics of hot, cold, and surface-trapped excitons in semiconductor nanocrystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 7730-7739

  Mooney, Jonathan ^a   Krause, Michael M ^a   Kambhampati, Patanjali ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; EXCITONS; KINETICS; NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM YIELD; THERMODYNAMICS;

ABSORPTION AND EMISSIONS; KINETICS AND THERMODYNAMICS; LINEAR ABSORPTION SPECTRA; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; STEADY-STATE SPECTROSCOPIES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84898478304     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp502102a     Document Type: Article

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