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Busting through quantum dot barriers

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Early time transient absorption microscopy in quantum dot solids reveals anomalous exciton transport with multiple different temporal regimes within hundreds of femtoseconds after photoexcitation.

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Fig. 1: Transient imaging of exciton transport in a QD solid.

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  1. Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Naomi S. Ginsberg

  2. Materials Science Division and Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Naomi S. Ginsberg

  3. Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Naomi S. Ginsberg

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    William A. Tisdale

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