Three-pulse femtosecond spectroscopy of PbSe nanocrystals: 1S bleach nonlinearity and sub-band-edge excited-state absorption assignment

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 2138-2147

  Gdor, Itay ^a   Shapiro, Arthur ^b   Yang, Chunfan ^a   Yanover, Diana ^b   Lifshitz, Efrat ^b   Ruhman, Sanford ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

exciton cooling; multiexciton generation; nanocrystals; quantum dots; ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CLEANING; ENERGY GAP; EXCITONS; GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS; IV-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; NANOCRYSTALS; PROBES; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BANDGAP ABSORPTION; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; EXCITON COOLING; FEMTOSECOND SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIEXCITON GENERATION; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84923414632     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5074868     Document Type: Article

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