Nanoscale imaging of quantum dot dimers using time-resolved super-resolution microscopy combined with scanning electron microscopy

Dunlap, Megan K.; Ryan, Duncan P.; Goodwin, Peter M.; Sheehan, Chris J.; Werner, James H.; Majumder, Somak; Hollingsworth, Jennifer A.; Gelfand, Martin P.; Van Orden, Alan

doi:10.1088/1361-6528/acc9c9

Title: Nanoscale imaging of quantum dot dimers using time-resolved super-resolution microscopy combined with scanning electron microscopy

Journal Article · 20 April 2023 · Nanotechnology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/acc9c9 · OSTI ID:1971146

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Abstract Time-resolved super-resolution microscopy was used in conjunction with scanning electron microscopy to image individual colloidal CdSe/CdS semiconductor quantum dots (QD) and QD dimers. The photoluminescence (PL) lifetimes, intensities, and structural parameters were acquired with nanometer scale spatial resolution and sub-nanosecond time resolution. The combination of these two techniques was more powerful than either alone, enabling us to resolve the PL properties of individual QDs within QD dimers as they blinked on and off, measure interparticle distances, and identify QDs that may be participating in energy transfer. The localization precision of our optical imaging technique was ∼3 nm, low enough that the emission from individual QDs within the dimers could be spatially resolved. While the majority of QDs within dimers acted as independent emitters, at least one pair of QDs in our study exhibited lifetime and intensity behaviors consistent with resonance energy transfer from a shorter lifetime and lower intensity donor QD to a longer lifetime and higher intensity acceptor QD. For this case, we demonstrate how the combined super-resolution optical imaging and scanning electron microscopy data can be used to characterize the energy transfer rate.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund; USDOE; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 1971146

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-22-30221

Journal Information:: Nanotechnology, Journal Name: Nanotechnology Journal Issue: 27 Vol. 34; ISSN 0957-4484

Publisher:: IOP PublishingCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United Kingdom

Language:: English

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