Air-Stable Surface-Passivated Perovskite Quantum Dots for Ultra-Robust, Single- and Two-Photon-Induced Amplified Spontaneous Emission

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 5027-5033

  Pan, Jun ^a   Sarmah, Smritakshi P ^a   Murali, Banavoth ^a   Dursun, Ibrahim ^a   Peng, Wei ^a   Parida, Manas R ^a   Liu, Jiakai ^a   Sinatra, Lutfan ^a   Alyami, Noktan ^a   Zhao, Chao ^b   Alarousu, Erkki ^a   Ng, Tien Khee ^a   Ooi, Boon S ^a   Bakr, Osman M ^a   Mohammed, Omar F ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Advanced Nanofabrication Imaging and Characterization Core Laboratories   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

CsPbBr3; perovskite; photostability; quantum dots; surface passivation; two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

LASER EXCITATION; NANOCRYSTALS; PASSIVATION; PEROVSKITE; PHOTONS; PULSED LASERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; THIN FILMS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; CSPBBR3; INORGANIC-ORGANIC HYBRID; OPERATIONAL STABILITY; PHOTO-STABILITY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; SURFACE PASSIVATION; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84952011384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02460     Document Type: Article

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