Diffusion-assisted photoexcitation transfer in coupled semiconducting carbon nanotube thin films

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5383-5394

  Grechko, Maksim ^a   Ye, Yumin ^b   Mehlenbacher, Randy D ^a   McDonough, Thomas J ^a   Wu, Meng Yin ^b   Jacobberger, Robert M ^b   Arnold, Michael S ^b   Zanni, Martin T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; diffusion; electronic energy transfer; exciton; photovoltaic; transient absorption

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DIFFUSION; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITONS; FIBERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOEXCITATION;

ELECTRONIC ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION TRANSFER; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOVOLTAIC; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROGRAPH;

SEMICONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 84903473174     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4041798     Document Type: Article

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