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ABSTRACT: Multishell semiconductor nanocrystals have been synthesized that display intrinsic dual emission with robust photo and thermal stability and attractive thermal sensitivity. Dual emission is demonstrated following phase transfer into aqueous media. These nanocrystals are suitable for diverse optical thermometric or thermographic applications in biotechnology or other areas.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 09/2011; 133(38):14978-80. · 9.91 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Colloidal manganese-doped semiconductor nanocrystals have been developed that show pronounced intrinsic high-temperature dual emission. Photoexcitation of these nanocrystals gives rise to strongly temperature dependent luminescence involving two distinct but interconnected emissive excited states of the same doped nanocrystals. The ratio of the two intensities is independent of nonradiative effects. The temperature window over which pronounced dual emission is observed can be tuned by changing the nanocrystal energy gap during growth. This unique combination of properties makes this new class of intrinsic dual emitters attractive for ratiometric optical thermometry applications.
Nano Letters 09/2010; 10(9):3670-4. · 13.20 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Dopant-carrier magnetic exchange interactions in semiconductor nanostructures give rise to unusually large Zeeman splittings of the semiconductor band levels, raising possibilities for spin-based electronics or photonics applications. Here we evaluate the recently highlighted possibility of confinement-induced kinetic s-d exchange coupling in doped ZnSe/CdSe inverted core/shell nanocrystals. Magneto-optical studies of a broad series of Co(2+)- and Mn(2+)-doped core, inverted core/shell, and isocrystalline core/shell nanocrystals reveal that the dominant spectroscopic effects caused by CdSe shell growth around doped ZnSe core nanocrystals arise from hole spatial relaxation, being essentially independent of the electron-dopant interaction or the heterointerface itself. The general criteria for observation of kinetic s-d exchange coupling in doped nanocrystals are discussed in light of these results.
Nano Letters 10/2009; 9(12):4376-82. · 13.20 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Electronic absorption spectroscopy has been used to study changes in Co2+ ligand-field parameters as a function of alloy composition in Co2+-doped Cd(1-x)Zn(x)Se nanocrystals. A shift in the energy of the 4T1(P) excited-state with alloy composition is observed. Analysis reveals that Co2+-Se2- bond lengths change relatively little as the host is varied continuously from CdSe to ZnSe, generating a large difference between microscopic and average cation-anion bond lengths in Co2+-doped CdSe nanocrystals but not in Co2+-doped ZnSe nanocrystals. The bimodal bond-length distributions observed here are shown to cause a diameter-dependent enthalpic destabilization of doped semiconductor nanocrystals.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 05/2007; 129(13):3973-8. · 9.91 Impact Factor
