Using shape to turn off blinking for two-colour multiexciton emission in CdSe/CdS tetrapods

Mishra, Nimai; Orfield, Noah Jeremiah; Wang, Feng; Hu, Zhongjian; Krishnamurthy, Sachidananda; Malko, Anton V.; Casson, Joanna Lee; Htoon, Han; Sykora, Milan; Hollingsworth, Jennifer Ann

doi:10.1038/ncomms15083

Title: Using shape to turn off blinking for two-colour multiexciton emission in CdSe/CdS tetrapods

Journal Article · Fri May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15083· OSTI ID:1358172

Mishra, Nimai ^[1]; Orfield, Noah Jeremiah ^[1]; Wang, Feng ^[1]; Hu, Zhongjian ^[1]; Krishnamurthy, Sachidananda ^[2]; Malko, Anton V. ^[3]; Casson, Joanna Lee ^[1];

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); The Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States)
The Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States)

Here, semiconductor nanostructures capable of emitting from two excited states and thereby of producing two photoluminescence colours are of fundamental and potential technological significance. In this limited class of nanocrystals, CdSe/CdS core/arm tetrapods exhibit the unusual trait of two-colour (red and green) multiexcitonic emission, with green emission from the CdS arms emerging only at high excitation fluences. Here we show that by synthetic shape-tuning, both this multi-colour emission process, and blinking and photobleaching behaviours of single tetrapods can be controlled. Specifically, we find that the properties of dual emission and single-nanostructure photostability depend on different structural parameters—arm length and arm diameter, respectively—but that both properties can be realized in the same nanostructure. Furthermore, based on results of correlated photoluminescence and transient absorption measurements, we conclude that hole-trap filling in the arms and partial state-filling in the core are necessary preconditions for the observation of multiexciton multi-colour emission.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Work was performed at CINT, with aspects of the work by CINT User Projects (U2013A0134, U2013B0037); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1358172

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-21822

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 8; ISSN 2041-1723

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