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Dejian Dai1, Nan Zhang, Wenxia Zhang
1Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, PR China.
Nanoscale
|April 26, 2012
Abstract:
We report strong photoluminescence in an ultra-small surface oxidized SiC quantum dot-sodium dodecyl sulfonate crosslinked network. The peak emission wavelength is tunable spanning a wide blue-violet spectral region showing clear quantum confinement effects. The photoluminescence decay exhibits triple recombination dynamics with an average lifetime of 13.65 ns.
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