Electrochemical control over photoinduced electron transfer and trapping in CdSe-CdTe quantum-dot solids

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 7067-7077

  Boehme, Simon C ^a   Walvis, T Ardaan ^a   Infante, Ivan ^b   Grozema, Ferdinand C ^a   Vanmaekelbergh, Daniël ^c   Siebbeles, Laurens D A ^a   Houtepen, Arjan J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

charge transfer; defect; electrochemistry; Fermi level; ligands; quantum dot; transient absorption spectroscopy; trapping

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CHARGE TRANSFER; DEFECTS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRAPS; FERMI LEVEL; LIGANDS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THIN FILMS;

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL CONTROL; ELECTRON TRANSFER RATES; PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER; QUANTUM DOT; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; TRAPPING;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

EID: 84904758388     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501985e     Document Type: Article

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