Evidence in Support of Exciton to Ligand Vibrational Coupling in Colloidal Quantum Dots

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 4336-4347

  Lifshitz, Efrat ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLITES; ELECTRONIC STATES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITONS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; ELECTRONIC PASSIVATION; ELECTRONIC WAVE FUNCTIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER PROCESS; EXCITON RECOMBINATION; INORGANIC CRYSTALLITES; IONIZATION PROCESS; VIBRATIONAL COUPLINGS;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84946569219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01567     Document Type: Review

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