Multi-exciton emission from solitary dopant states of carbon nanotubes

Ma, Xuedan; Hartmann, Nicolai F.; Velizhanin, Kirill A.; Baldwin, Jon Kevin Scott; Adamska, Lyudmyla; Tretiak, Sergei; Doorn, Stephen K.; Htoon, Han

doi:10.1039/c7nr06661a

Title: Multi-exciton emission from solitary dopant states of carbon nanotubes

Journal Article · Thu Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nanoscale

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr06661a· OSTI ID:1673361

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

By separating the photons from slow and fast decays of single and multi-exciton states in a time gated 2^nd order photon correlation experiment, we show that solitary oxygen dopant states of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) allow emission of photon pairs with efficiencies as high as 44% of single exciton emission. Here, our pump dependent time resolved photoluminescence (PL) studies further reveal diffusion-limited exciton–exciton annihilation as the key process that limits the emission of multi-excitons at high pump fluences. We further postulate that creation of additional permanent exciton quenching sites occurring under intense laser irradiation leads to permanent PL quenching. With this work, we bring out multi-excitonic processes of solitary dopant states as a new area to be explored for potential applications in lasing and entangled photon generation.

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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; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 1673361

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-29325

Journal Information:: Nanoscale, Vol. 9, Issue 42; ISSN 2040-3364

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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