Many potential applications of quantum dots (QDs) can only be realized once the
luminescence from single nanocrystals (NCs) is understood. These applications include the …

Semiconductor nanocrystals offer an enormous diversity of potential device applications,
based on their size-tunable photoluminescence, high optical stability and'bottom …

Nanocrystal quantum dots are attractive materials for applications as nanoscale light
sources. One impediment to these applications is fluctuations of single-dot emission …

Single photon detection methods are used to acquire fluorescence trajectories from single
CdSe/ZnS colloidal quantum dots (QDs) and analyze their blinking behavior. Although the …

Photoluminescence blinking—random switching between states of high (ON) and low (OFF)
emissivities—is a universal property of molecular emitters found in dyes, polymers …

The efficiency and stability of emission from semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs)
is negatively affected by “blinking” on the single-nanocrystal level, that is, random alternation …

Fluorescence blinking of single quantum dots (QDs) under constant illumination has
attracted a great deal of attention from both experimentalists and theoreticians. To explain …

Photoluminescence intermittency is a ubiquitous phenomenon, reducing the temporal
emission intensity stability of single colloidal quantum dots (QDs) and the emission quantum …

Fluorescence blinking in nanocrystal quantum dots is known to exhibit power-law dynamics,
and several different mechanisms have been proposed to explain this behavior. We have …

Colloidal semiconductor quantum dots are attractive fluorophores for multicolor imaging
because of broad absorption and narrow emission spectra, and they are brighter and far …