Polarized near-infrared intersubband absorptions in CdSe colloidal quantum wells

Diroll, Benjamin T.; Chen, Menglu; Coropceanu, Igor; Williams, Kali R.; Talapin, Dmitri V.; Guyot-Sionnest, Philippe; Schaller, Richard D.

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12503-z

Title: Polarized near-infrared intersubband absorptions in CdSe colloidal quantum wells

Journal Article · Fri Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12503-z· OSTI ID:1607376

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Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials; Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
\Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials; Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)

Colloidal quantum wells are two-dimensional materials grown with atomically-precise thickness that dictates their electronic structure. Although intersubband absorption in epitaxial quantum wells is well-known, analogous observations in non-epitaxial two-dimensional materials are sparse. Here in this paper, we show that CdSe nanoplatelet quantum wells have narrow (30–200 meV), polarized intersubband absorption features when photoexcited or under applied bias, which can be tuned by thickness across the near-infrared (NIR) spectral window (900–1600 nm) inclusive of important telecommunications wavelengths. By examination of the optical absorption and polarization-resolved measurements, the NIR absorptions are assigned to electron intersubband transitions. Under photoexcitation, the intersubband features display hot carrier and Auger recombination effects similar to excitonic absorptions. Sequenced two-color photoexcitation permits the sub-picosecond modulation of the carrier temperature in such colloidal quantum wells. This work suggests that colloidal quantum wells may be promising building blocks for NIR technologies.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

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