We present a new physical model resolving a long-standing mystery of the power-law
distributions of the blinking times in single colloidal quantum dot fluorescence. The model …

A detailed modeling of recently observed nonexponential fluorescence intermittency in
colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) is presented. In particular, experiments have …

Semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots (QDs) are highly photoluminescent materials
with unique optical attributes that are being exploited in an ever‐increasing array of …

We report the observation of fluorescence from single PbS quantum dots (QDs) using
confocal microscopy in an inert atmosphere. Single PbS QDs exhibit a narrowing of the …

Luminescent colloidal CdSe nanoplatelets with atomically defined thicknesses have recently
been developed, and their potential for various applications has been shown. To understand …

The light-induced spectral diffusion and fluorescence intermittency (blinking) of
semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots are investigated theoretically using a diffusion …

In the last decade emerging single‐molecule fluorescence‐spectroscopy tools have been
developed and adapted to analyze individual molecules under various conditions. Single …

The photoluminescence dynamics of colloidal CdSe/ZnS/streptavidin quantum dots were
studied using time-resolved single-molecule spectroscopy. Statistical tests of the photon …

Here we report the first series of phase-pure zinc-blende CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots
(QDs) with reproducibly controlled shell thickness (4–16 monolayers), which are nonblinking …

The optical microscope is one of the oldest scientific instruments that is still used in forefront
research. Ernst Abbe's nineteenth century formulation of the resolution limit in microscopy let …