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Charge Transfer Dynamics in Quantum
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DECLARATION I, hereby declare that
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is my privilege
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1.3.5. Defect Mediated Relaxation 2
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6.2. Experimental 6.2.1.Synthesis o
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devices based on QDs it has been sh
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Furthermore generation of pump (~40
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shell). This clearly indicated that
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12. V. I. Klimov, J. Phys. Chem. B,
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1.13 Reactant and Product Potential
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light. Inset: Kinetic traces monito
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6.5 Transient decay kinetics of gra
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at 670 nm after exciting at 400 nm
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ABBREVIATIONS BET BQ CB CCD CdS CdT
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1 Chapter 1
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3 size dependent optical properties
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5 1.2. Physics of Semiconductors 1.
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7 As seen from the schematic, poten
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9 Substituting this in Schrödinger
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11 ( r, r ) ( r ) ( r ) (1.13) e
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13 E E E 2 2 2 EX ne, le nh,
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15 spherical symmetry of field. The
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17 gE ( ) 2Em 2 3 3 (1.25) For a
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19 1.3.2. Electron-Hole energy tran
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21 Impact Ionization Figure 1.7. Sc
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23 understanding on mechanistic asp
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25 carriers are unable to sample th
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27 CB VB QD Metal Figure. 1. 10. Sc
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29 energy barrier. Therefore it is
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31 1 f q 2 A qB (1.30) 2 In equa
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33 Vibrational contribution can be
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128 CHAPTER 5 Charge Carrier Dynami
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130 CdSe/ZnTe. Feldman and coworker
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132 by reducing Se with NaBH 4 with
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134 broadening in the present case
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136 vis absorption spectra of the t
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138 5.3.3. Time resolved emission s
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140 Sample t 1 (ns) t 2 (ns) t 3 (n
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142 can be attributed to absorption
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144 5.3.5. Transient absorption stu
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146 However, due to staggered band
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148 Scheme 5.1: Schematic represent
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150 are the reason for that contrib
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152 5.10. L. P. Balet, S. A. Ivanov
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154 Chapter 6
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156 Recently several methods like c
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158 6.2.2. Reduction of Graphene Ox
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160 isolated CdTe QD over graphene
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162 Figure 6.3: Time-resolved emiss
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164 carriers on laser excitation. I
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166 absorption in the present studi
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168 increases from 33.3% to 61.8% i
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170 as compared to that of GO. It i
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172 components could come from trap
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174 A (m O.D.) 0 -10 -20 -30 a b Cd
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176 The cooling dynamics does not s
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178 The study clearly shows that th
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180 From emission studies both stea
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182 6.18. C. X. Guo, H. Bin Yang, Z
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184 CHAPTER 7 Summary and Outlook 7
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186 bleach growth times from 500fs
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188 Study of interfacial electron t
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190 Chapter 8 List of Publications