White-light emission of blue-luminescent graphene quantum dots by europium (III) complex incorporation

Carbon

Volumn 124, Issue , 2017, Pages 479-485

  Kim, Sejung ^a,b   Seo, Joon Kyo ^a   Park, Jun Hong ^a   Song, Youngjun ^b   Meng, Ying Shirley ^b   Heller, Michael J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY GAP; EUROPIUM; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; OXYGEN; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYMER FILMS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ARC-DISCHARGE PROCESS; ELECTRON DONATION; ELECTRON-DONATING; LIGHT EMITTING POLYMER; NANOSCALE PARTICLES; OPTOELECTRONICS DEVICES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY/SPECTROSCOPY; WHITE LIGHT EMISSION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 85028956340     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2017.08.021     Document Type: Article

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