Ultra long-lived radiative trap states in CdSe quantum dots

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 37, 2014, Pages 21682-21686

  Abdellah, Mohamed ^a,b   Karki, Khadga J ^a   Lenngren, Nils ^a   Zheng, Kaibo ^a   Pascher, Torbjörn ^a   Yartsev, Arkady ^a   Pullerits, Tõnu ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOPHYSICS; RED SHIFT; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; HOLE TRAPPING; PUMP PROBE MEASUREMENT; RED-SHIFTED; STEADY STATE; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84908608013     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp506536h     Document Type: Article

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