Room-temperature exciton coherence and dephasing in two-dimensional nanostructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cassette, Elsa ^a   Pensack, Ryan D ^a   Mahler, Benoît ^a   Scholes, Gregory D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

COLLOID; CORRELATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL METHOD; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VIBRATION;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; VIBRATION;

EID: 84923107250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7086     Document Type: Article

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