Ultrafast Transient Absorption Study of the Nature of Interaction between Oppositely Charged Photoexcited CdTe Quantum Dots and Cresyl Violet

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 27, 2015, Pages 15661-15668

  Sekhar, M Chandra ^a   Samanta, Anunay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); QUENCHING;

ABSORPTION AND EMISSION SPECTRA; LUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; STEADY-STATE FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY; TIME-RESOLVED ABSORPTION; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; ULTRAFAST PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84936884934     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b02203     Document Type: Article

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