A phonon scattering bottleneck for carrier cooling in lead chalcogenide nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 778-788

  Geiregat, Pieter ^a   Delerue, Christophe ^b   Justo, Yolanda ^a   Aerts, Michiel ^c   Spoor, Frank ^c   Van Thourhout, Dries ^a   Siebbeles, Laurens D A ^c   Allan, Guy ^b   Houtepen, Arjan J ^a,c   Hens, Zeger ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

electron phonon interaction; multiple exciton generation; PbS; PbSe; quantum dots; transient absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHALCOGENIDES; CHARGE CARRIERS; COOLING; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; EXCITONS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHONON SCATTERING; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CARRIER COOLING; LEAD CHALCOGENIDES; MULTIEXCITON GENERATION; MULTIPLE EXCITON GENERATIONS; PBS; PBSE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

ABSORPTION COOLING;

EID: 84921789340     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5062723     Document Type: Article

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