Tailoring the exciton fine structure of cadmium selenide nanocrystals with shape anisotropy and magnetic field

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11651-11656

  Sinito, Chiara ^a   Fernée, Mark J ^a   Goupalov, Serguei V ^b,c   Mulvaney, Paul ^d   Tamarat, Philippe ^a   Lounis, Brahim ^a  

^a Laboratoire Photonique   (France)

^b JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CdSe; Exciton fine structure; PL; PLE; Quantum dot; Single nanocrystal

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; EXCITONS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOCRYSTALS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ZINC SULFIDE;

CADMIUM SELENIDE NANOCRYSTALS; CDSE; CDSE NANOCRYSTALS; EXCITON FINE STRUCTURE; SHAPE ANISOTROPY; SINGLE NANOCRYSTALS; VALENCE BAND MIXING; ZINC BLENDE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84912544783     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5049409     Document Type: Article

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