Engineering the spin-flip limited exciton dephasing in colloidal CdSe/CdS quantum dots

Accanto, Nicolò, Masia, Francesco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4958-410X, Moreels, Iwan, Hens, Zeger, Langbein, Wolfgang Werner ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9786-1023 and Borri, Paola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7873-3314 2012. Engineering the spin-flip limited exciton dephasing in colloidal CdSe/CdS quantum dots. Acs Nano 6 (6) , pp. 5227-5233. 10.1021/nn300992a

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Abstract

We have measured the intrinsic exciton dephasing in high-quality zinc blende CdSe/CdS colloidal quantum dots in the temperature range from 5 to 170 K using a sensitive three-beam photon echo technique in heterodyne detection, which is not affected by spectral diffusion. Pure dephasing via acoustic phonons dominates the initial dynamics, followed by an exponential zero-phonon line dephasing. From the temperature dependence of the zero-phonon line dephasing, the exciton lifetime, and the exciton thermalization within its fine structure, we show that the zero-phonon line dephasing of the lowest bright state originates from the phonon-assisted spin–flip to dark exciton states. Importantly, we can control the dephasing by tailoring the exciton fine structure through its dependence on the dot core size and shell thickness, as expected from the spin–flip mechanism. By reducing the electron–hole exchange interaction with increasing core size and delocalization of the electron wave function in the quasi-type-II core/shell band alignment, we find the longest zero-phonon line dephasing time of 110 ps at 5 K in dots with the largest core diameter (5.7 nm) and the thickest CdSe shell (9 monolayers) in the series studied.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	exciton dephasing; transient four-wave mixing; colloidal nanocystals
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
ISSN:	1936-0851
Funders:	EPSRC
Last Modified:	08 Nov 2023 20:40
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/37403

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