Size-dependent energy transfer pathways in CdSe quantum dot-squaraine light-harvesting assemblies: Förster versus dexter

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 18453-18461

  Hoffman, Jacob B ^a   Choi, Hyunbong ^a   Kamat, Prashant V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ENERGY TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; ENERGY TRANSFER PROCESS; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; LIGHT ENERGY CONVERSION; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; THIOL FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

EID: 84906263645     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp506757a     Document Type: Article

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