Nonlinear optical switching and enhanced nonlinear optical response of au-cdse heteronanostructures

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 51, 2014, Pages 30333-30341

  Sreeramulu, V ^a   Haldar, Krishna Kanta ^b   Patra, Amitava ^b   Narayana Rao, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LASER PULSES; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SWITCHING; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; PLASMON-EXCITON INTERACTIONS; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; THIRD ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION CROSS SECTION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84920025266     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5118739     Document Type: Article

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