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Compact Quantum Dots for Single-molecule Imaging
Published on: October 9, 2012
Synthesis of colloidal HgTe quantum dots for narrow mid-IR emission and detection
Sean Keuleyan1, Emmanuel Lhuillier, Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
1The James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|September 28, 2011
Abstract:
HgTe colloidal quantum dots are prepared via a simple two-step injection method. Absorption and photodetection with sharp edges, as well as narrow photoluminescence, are tunable across the near and mid-IR between 1.3 and 5 μm.

