Electron-Phonon Coupling in CdSe/CdS Core/Shell Quantum Dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 8131-8141

  Lin, Chen ^a   Gong, Ke ^a   Kelley, David F ^a   Kelley, Anne Myers ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

core shell; electron phonon coupling; Fr hlich; quantum dot; resonance Raman

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; ELECTRON CORRELATIONS; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; EXCITATION ENERGY; NANOCRYSTALS; PHONONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); ZINC SULFIDE;

CORE/SHELL; CORE/SHELL QUANTUM DOTS; ELECTRON PHONON COUPLINGS; EXPERIMENTAL FREQUENCIES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LONGITUDINAL OPTICAL PHONONS; QUANTUM DOT; RESONANCE RAMAN;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84940050487     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02230     Document Type: Article

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