Manipulating the Quantum States of Gold Nanoclusters (IMAGE)

Carnegie Mellon University

Manipulating the Quantum States of Gold Nanoclusters

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Carnegie Mellon chemists created a 30-atom gold nanocluster with a hcp structure, which has a quantum lifetime of one nanosecond and a 38-atom gold nanocluster with a bcc structure, which has a quantum lifetime of 4.7 microseconds.

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Carnegie Mellon University

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