Hole cooling is much faster than electron cooling in pbse quantum dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 695-703

  Spoor, Frank C M ^a   Kunneman, Lucas T ^a   Evers, Wiel H ^a,b   Renaud, Nicolas ^a   Grozema, Ferdinand C ^a   Houtepen, Arjan J ^a   Siebbeles, Laurens D A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Band structure; Charge carrier cooling; Electron acceptor; Nanocrystal; Quantum dot; Transient absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COOLING; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BAND STRUCTURE; BLEACHING; CHARGE CARRIERS; CLEANING; COOLING; ELECTRONS; HOT ELECTRONS; LEAD; NANOCRYSTALS; NARROW BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

CARRIER COOLING; CARRIER MULTIPLICATION; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON COOLING; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; PBSE QUANTUM DOTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84991257310     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05731     Document Type: Article

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