Phosphor Quantum Dots

Luminescent Materials and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 19-73

  Bera, Debasis ^a   Qian, Lei ^a   Holloway, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Density of states (DOS); Direct band gap materials absorption and recombination efficiency; Direct band gap semiconductor; Highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO); Light emitting or luminescent materials; Lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO); Photoluminescence (PL) and electroluminescence (EL); Quantum dots (Qdots); Thin film electroluminescence (TFEL) device; Valence band maximum and conduction band minimum

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT EMISSION; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOCRYSTALS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

CONDUCTION-BAND MINIMUM; DENSITY OF STATE; DIRECT BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; LUMINESCENT MATERIAL; RECOMBINATION EFFICIENCY; THIN-FILM ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84954122596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470985687.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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