Correction: Efficient Infrared-to-Visible Upconversion with Subsolar Irradiance (Nano Lett. (2016) 16:11 (7169-7175) DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03503);Efficient Infrared-to-Visible Upconversion with Subsolar Irradiance

Nano Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 7169-7175

  Mahboub, Melika ^a   Huang, Zhiyuan ^b   Tang, Ming Lee ^a,b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

acene; core shell semiconductor quantum dots; Dexter transfer; NIR upconversion; solar; triplets

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLAR CELLS;

ACENE; CORE SHELL; DEXTER TRANSFER; SOLAR; TRIPLETS; UP-CONVERSION;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84994715789     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04941     Document Type: Erratum

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