Luminescence Blinking of a Reacting Quantum Dot

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2504-2509

  Routzahn, Aaron L ^a   Jain, Prashant K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

cadmium selenide; cation exchange; emission; Single molecule fluorescence

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULES; NANOCRYSTALS; NEUTRON EMISSION; REACTION INTERMEDIATES;

CADMIUM SELENIDES; CATION EXCHANGES; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; LUMINESCENCE BLINKING; MICROSCOPIC VIEWS; SEMI-CONDUCTOR SURFACES; SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE; SINGLE NANOCRYSTALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84926646089     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00068     Document Type: Review

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