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A charge for blinking

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No accepted description of luminescent blinking in quantum dots is currently available. Now, experiments probing the connection between charge and fluorescence intensity fluctuations unveil an unexpected source of blinking, significantly advancing our fundamental understanding of this baffling phenomenon.

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Figure 1: Simplified energy-level diagrams for ON and OFF states in A- and B-type blinking events.

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  1. Todd D. Krauss is in the Department of Chemistry and the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA,

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  2. Jeffrey J. Peterson is in the Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Geneseo, New York 14454, USA,

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Krauss, T., Peterson, J. A charge for blinking. Nature Mater 11, 14–16 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3206

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