Renato A. Cruz, Viviane Pilla, and Tomaz Catunda A recently developed thermal lens spectrometry configuration has been used to study CdSe/ZnS core-shell quantum dots (QDs) suspended in toluene and tetrahydrofuran (THF) solvents. The special features of this configuration make it very attractive to measure fluorescence quantum yield (eta) excitatio ... [J. Appl. Phys. 107, 083504 (2010)] published Wed Apr 21, 2010.