Tuning energy splitting and recombination dynamics of dark and bright excitons in CdSe/CdS dot-in-rod colloidal nanostructures

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 22309-22316

  Biadala, Louis ^a   Siebers, Benjamin ^a   Gomes, Raquel ^c,d   Hens, Zeger ^c,d   Yakovlev, Dmitri R ^a,b   Bayer, Manfred ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures   (Russian Federation)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; EXCITONS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; ENERGY SPLITTINGS; EXCITON RECOMBINATION; QUADRATIC DEPENDENCE; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION RATE; RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS; STRONG DEPENDENCES; TIME RESOLVED STUDIES;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84907462430     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp505887u     Document Type: Article

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