Hot-Carrier Relaxation in CdSe/CdS Core/Shell Nanoplatelets
- Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials
- Univ. of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC (Canada)
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials; Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Here, we present time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy of a series of colloidal CdSe/CdS core/shell nanoplatelets with different core and shell thicknesses. Exciton numbers are determined from the integrated PI, intensities, and carrier temperatures are determined from the high-energy exponential tail of the PL spectra. For times between 10 and 1000 ps, the measured carrier relaxation dynamics are well described by a simple model of Auger reheating: biexcitonic Auger recombination continually increases the average energy of the carriers (while decreasing their number), and this reheating sets a bottleneck to cooling through electron-phonon coupling. For times between 1 and 10 ps, the relaxation dynamics are consistent with electron-phonon coupling, where the bottleneck is now the decay of the longitudinal optical phonon population. Comparison of relaxation dynamics to recombination dynamics reveals changes in the carrier-phonon coupling for shell thicknesses greater than 4 monolayers.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); China Scholarship Council; National Science Foundation (NSF). Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division of Materials Research (MPS-DMR)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1615623
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Vol. 124, Issue 1; ISSN 1932-7447
- Publisher:
- American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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