Title :
Acid-free sol-gel fabrication of quantum-dot thin films for ultrafast nanophotonics research
Author :
Hemang Jani;Lingze Duan
Author_Institution :
Department of Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 35899, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a method of fabricating silica glass thin films embedded with CdSe quantum dots (QDs). Unlike the conventional sol-gel process, no acid is used to catalyze the gel-formation and hence the QDs are preserved.
Keywords :
"Heating","Coherence"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323522
