Silicon nanocrystals functionalized with pyrene units: Efficient light-harvesting antennae with bright near-infrared emission

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 3325-3329

  Locritani, Mirko ^a   Yu, Yixuan ^b   Bergamini, Giacomo ^a   Baroncini, Massimo ^a   Molloy, Jennifer K ^a   Korgel, Brian A ^b   Ceroni, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

energy transfer; nanocrystals; near infrared photoluminescence; silicon

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PYRENE; SILICON;

EFFICIENT ENERGY TRANSFER; FUNCTIONALIZED; LIGHT-HARVESTING; NEAR INFRA RED; NEAR-INFRARED EMISSIONS; NEAR-INFRARED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PYRENE CHROMOPHORES; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84907810234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz501609e     Document Type: Article

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