The usefulness of semiconductor nanocrystals is severely limited by the fact that they 'blink': they turn on and off intermittently under continuous excitation. Here, ternary core/shell CdZnSe/ZnSe nanocrystals are realized, in which the transition between CdZnSe and ZnSe seems to be radially graded rather than abrupt, and which show completely non-blinking behaviour and strong photoluminescence.
- Xiaoyong Wang
- Xiaofan Ren
- Todd D. Krauss
