Auger-limited carrier recombination and relaxation in CdSe colloidal quantum wells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1032-1036

  Baghani, Erfan ^a   Oleary, Stephen K ^a   Fedin, Igor ^b   Talapin, Dmitri V ^b,c   Pelton, Matthew ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auger Recombination; Biexciton; Cadmium Selenide; Carrier Cooling; Colloidal; Nanoplatelet

Indexed keywords

AUGERS; CHARGE CARRIERS; COLLOIDS; COOLING; DYNAMICS; EXCITONS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

AUGER RECOMBINATION; BIEXCITONS; CADMIUM SELENIDES; CARRIER COOLING; COLLOIDAL; NANOPLATELET;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84925275017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00143     Document Type: Article

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