How nanocrystals lost their blink

Taekjip Ha
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Taekjip Ha: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. tjha@illinois.edu

Nature, 2009, vol. 459, issue 7247, 649-650

Abstract: Semiconducting nanocrystals emit light in many different colours, but they blink on and off at random. The latest nanocrystals emit photons steadily, thanks to the blending of their cores into their outer shells.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1038/459649a

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