Influence of Morphology on Blinking Mechanisms and Excitonic Fine Structure of Single Colloidal Nanoplatelets

Hu, Zhongjian; Singh, Ajay; Goupalov, Serguei; Hollingsworth, Jennifer; Htoon, Han

doi:10.1039/C8NR06234J

Title: Influence of Morphology on Blinking Mechanisms and Excitonic Fine Structure of Single Colloidal Nanoplatelets

Journal Article · Thu Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Nanoscale

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NR06234J· OSTI ID:1482958

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS (United States); Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg (Russia)

Colloidal semiconductor nanoplatelets with electronic structure as quantum wells have recently emerged as exciting materials for optoelectronic applications. Here we investigate how morpholo-gy affects important photoluminescence properties of single CdSe and core/shell CdSe/CdZnS na-noplatelets. By analyzing photoluminescence intensity-lifetime correlation and second-order pho-ton correlation results, we demonstrate that, irrespective of morphology, Auger recombination plays only a minor role in dictating the blinking behavior of the nanoplatelets. We find that a rough shell induces additional nonradiative channels presumably related to defects or traps of an imper-fect shell. However, polarization-resolved spectroscopy analysis reveals exciton fine-structure splitting on the order of several tens of meV in rough-shell nanoplatelets at room temperature, which is attributed to exciton localization and substantiated with theoretical calculations taking into account the nanoplatelet shape and electron-hole exchange interaction.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

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OSTI ID:: 1482958

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1483902

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Journal Information:: Nanoscale, Vol. 10, Issue 48; ISSN 2040-3364

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