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Colloidal nanoplatelets - quasi-two-dimensional sheets of semiconductor exhibiting efficient, spectrally pure fluorescence - form when liquid-phase syntheses of spherical quantum dots are modified. Despite intense interest in their…
We show how to calculate the optical functions of a nanoplatelet, taking into account the effect of a dielectric confinement on excitonic states. Real density matrix approach is employed to obtain analytical and semi-analytical relations…
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