Acc. Chem. Res. 1999, 32, 389-396
ARTICLES Spectroscopy of Single CdSe Nanocrystallites STEPHEN EMPEDOCLES AND MOUNGI BAWENDI* Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Received April 6, 1998
Nanocrystallite quantum dots synthesized as colloids have generated growing interest in the past few years. This interest has been fueled by the high degree of reproducibility and control that is currently available in the fabrication and manipulation of these quantum-confined structures. CdSe nanocrystallites, which are often studied as a prototypical colloidal quantum dot system, can be synthesized in macroscopic quantities with sizes that are tunable during synthesis (15-100 Å) in a narrow size distribution (
