Room Temperature Single-Photon Emission from Individual Perovskite Quantum Dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 10386-10393

  Park, Young Shin ^a,b   Guo, Shaojun ^a   Makarov, Nikolay S ^a   Klimov, Victor I ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auger recombination; blinking; nanocrystal; perovskite; photoionization; photoluminescence intermittency; photon antibunching; quantum dot

Indexed keywords

AUGERS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IONIZATION; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

AUGER RECOMBINATION; BLINKING; ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE INTENSITIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE INTERMITTENCY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; PHOTON ANTIBUNCHING; WAVE FUNCTION ENGINEERING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84945939664     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04584     Document Type: Article

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