NIST studies why quantum dots suffer from 'fluorescence intermittency'

NIST studies why quantum dots suffer from 'fluorescence intermittency'
Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, have found that a particular species of quantum dots that weren't commonly thought to blink, do. So what? Well, although the blinks are short-on the order of nanoseconds to milliseconds-even brief fluctuations can result in efficiency losses that could caus ... more

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