Two-color antibunching from band-gap engineered colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals

Zvicka Deutsch, Osip Schwartz, Ron Tenne, Ronit Popovitz-Biro, Dan Oron

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Abstract

Photon antibunching is ubiquitously observed in light emitted from quantum systems but is usually associated only with the lowest excited state of the emitter. Here, we devise a fluorophore that upon photoexcitation emits in either one of two distinct colors but exhibits strong antibunching between the two. This work demonstrates the possibility of creating room-temperature quantum emitters with higher complexity than effective two level systems via colloidal synthesis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2948-2952
Number of pages5
JournalNano Letters
Volume12
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 13 2012

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Fluorophores
Photoexcitation
Excited states
Nanocrystals
nanocrystals
emitters
Energy gap
Photons
Semiconductor materials
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Temperature
photons
room temperature
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Keywords

  • antibunching
  • Auger recombination
  • colloidal synthesis
  • dual-emission
  • multiexcitons
  • Quantum dots

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Bioengineering
  • Chemistry(all)
  • Materials Science(all)
  • Mechanical Engineering

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Two-color antibunching from band-gap engineered colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals. / Deutsch, Zvicka; Schwartz, Osip; Tenne, Ron; Popovitz-Biro, Ronit; Oron, Dan.

In: Nano Letters, Vol. 12, No. 6, 13.06.2012, p. 2948-2952.

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Deutsch, Z, Schwartz, O, Tenne, R, Popovitz-Biro, R & Oron, D 2012, 'Two-color antibunching from band-gap engineered colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals', Nano Letters, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 2948-2952. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl300638t
Deutsch Z, Schwartz O, Tenne R, Popovitz-Biro R, Oron D. Two-color antibunching from band-gap engineered colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals. Nano Letters. 2012 Jun 13;12(6):2948-2952. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl300638t
Deutsch, Zvicka ; Schwartz, Osip ; Tenne, Ron ; Popovitz-Biro, Ronit ; Oron, Dan. / Two-color antibunching from band-gap engineered colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals. In: Nano Letters. 2012 ; Vol. 12, No. 6. pp. 2948-2952.
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