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Exciton Nonlinearities and Optical Gain in Colloidal CdSe/CdS Dot/rod Nanocrystals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Michele Saba ,
Marco Marceddu ,
Francesco Quochi ,
Stefan Minniberger ,
Jürgen Roither ,
Agnieszka Gocalinska ,
Maksym V Kovalenko ,
Dmitri V Talapin ,
Wolfgang Heiss  and
Andrea Mura
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Michele Saba
Affiliation:
[email protected], Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Fisica, Monserrato, Italy
Marco Marceddu
Affiliation:
[email protected], Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Fisica, Monserrato, Italy
Francesco Quochi
Affiliation:
[email protected], Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Fisica, Monserrato, Italy
Stefan Minniberger
Affiliation:
[email protected], Johannes Keppler Universität Linz, Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Linz, Austria
Jürgen Roither
Affiliation:
[email protected], United States
Agnieszka Gocalinska
Affiliation:
[email protected], Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Fisica, Monserrato, Italy
Maksym V Kovalenko
Affiliation:
[email protected], The University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dmitri V Talapin
Affiliation:
[email protected], The University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wolfgang Heiss
Affiliation:
Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Andrea Mura
Affiliation:
[email protected], Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Fisica, Monserrato, Italy
Giovanni Bongiovanni
Affiliation:
[email protected], Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Fisica, Monserrato, Italy
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Abstract

We characterized the optical nonlinearities of CdSe nanocrystals surrounded by rod-like CdS shells with ultrafast measurements of time-resolved photoluminescence. We measured the exciton-exciton interaction to be, depending on structure details, attractive or repulsive, by as much as 29 meV, due to the unique band alignment in the CdSe/CdS. This feature makes CdSe/CdS dot/rods promising gain media for solution-processable lasers, as it appears combined with 80% photoluminescence quantum yield, narrow size and shape distributions and the antenna effect of the CdS rod shell enhancing optical absorption by more than a factor 50 with respect to bare dots.

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optical propertiesnanostructureoptoelectronic
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1207: Symposium N – Colloidal Nanoparticles for Electronic Applications — Light Emission, Detection, Photovoltaics and Transport , 2009 , 1207-N09-03
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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