Charging and Discharging Channels in Photoluminescence Intermittency of Single Colloidal CdSe/CdS Core/Shell Quantum Dot.

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS(2016)

引用 34|浏览23
暂无评分
摘要
Understanding photoluminescence (PL) intermittency of single quantum dots (QDs) (intensity blinking by randomly switching between distinguishable brightness states under continuous excitation) has been a longstanding fundamental challenge and potential roadblock for their applications. Here we introduce a new analysis method for single-molecule spectroscopy that treats the blinking as photochemical/chemical processes (switching between neutral/ bright and charged/dim states). It uncovers the channels for charging (bright to dim) and discharging (dim to bright) involved in PL blinking of single CdSe/CdS core/shell QDs. Both charging and discharging of the single CdSe/CdS core/shell QD possess a photochemical channel (-1075 to 10(-6) events/photon) that linearly depends on excitation in both single- and multi-exciton regime. These two linear channels coupled to a spontaneous discharging channel (similar to 2 events/s) to dictate the QDs from nonblinking to gradually blinking under increasing excitation. For high-quality CdSe/CdS core/shell QDs, Auger ionization of multiexciton for both charging and discharging is negligible.
更多
查看译文
关键词
single colloidal cdse/cds,photoluminescence intermittency,cdse/cds core/shell,quantum dot
AI 理解论文
溯源树
样例
生成溯源树,研究论文发展脉络
Chat Paper
正在生成论文摘要