Charge Transfer Dynamics from Photoexcited Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 67, Issue , 2016, Pages 259-281

  Zhu, Haiming ^a   Yang, Ye ^a   Wu, Kaifeng ^a   Lian, Tianquan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auger assisted electron transfer; Electron transfer; Marcus theory; Newns Anderson model; Quantum dot; Time resolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AUGERS; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

AUGE-ASSISTED ELECTRON TRANSFER; CHARGE TRANSFER PROPERTIES; CHARGE-TRANSFER DYNAMICS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; MARCUS THEORY; NEWNS-ANDERSON MODELS; QUANTUM DOT; RECENT PROGRESS; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84973278650     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: 15451593     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040215-112128     Document Type: Article

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