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Excitation Energy Dependence of Photoluminescence Quantum Yields in Semiconductor Nanomaterials with Varying Dimensionalities
journal contribution
posted on 2020-04-13, 19:19 authored by William
M. Sanderson, Jessica Hoy, Calynn Morrison, Fudong Wang, Yuanyuan Wang, Paul J. Morrison, William E. Buhro, Richard A. LoomisThe
excitation energy dependence (EED) of the photoluminescence
quantum yield (ΦPL) of semiconductor nanoparticles
with varying dimensionalities is reported. Specifically, the EEDs
of CdSe quantum dots, CdSe quantum platelets, CdSe quantum belts,
and CdTe quantum wires were determined via measurements of individual
ΦPL values and photoluminescence efficiency (PLEff(E)) spectra. There is a general trend
of overall decreasing efficiency for radiative recombination with
increasing excitation energy. In addition, there are often local minima
in the PLEff(E) spectra that are most
often at energies between quantum-confinement transitions. The average
PL lifetimes of the samples do not depend on the excitation energy,
suggesting that the EED of ΦPL arises from charge
carrier trapping that competes efficiently with intraband carrier
relaxation to the band edge. The local minima in the PLEff(E) spectra are attributed to excitation into optically
coupled states that results in the loss of carriers in the semiconductor.
The EED data suggest that the PLEff(E)
spectra depend on the sample synthesis, preparation, surface passivation,
and environment.