New generation cadmium-free quantum dots for biophotonics and nanomedicine

G Xu, S Zeng, B Zhang, MT Swihart, KT Yong… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This review summarizes recent progress in the design and applications of cadmium-free
quantum dots (Cd-free QDs), with an emphasis on their role in biophotonics and …

Direct-bandgap emission from hexagonal Ge and SiGe alloys

EMT Fadaly, A Dijkstra, JR Suckert, D Ziss… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Silicon crystallized in the usual cubic (diamond) lattice structure has dominated the
electronics industry for more than half a century. However, cubic silicon (Si), germanium …

Bound excitons in ZnO: Structural defect complexes versus shallow impurity centers

MR Wagner, G Callsen, JS Reparaz, JH Schulze… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
ZnO single crystals, epilayers, and nanostructures often exhibit a variety of narrow emission
lines in the spectral range between 3.33 and 3.35 eV which are commonly attributed to …

Polarization-correlated photon pairs from a single quantum dot

C Santori, D Fattal, M Pelton, GS Solomon… - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
Polarization correlation in a linear basis, but not entanglement, is observed between the
biexciton and single-exciton photons emitted by a single InAs quantum dot in a two-photon …

Biexciton versus exciton lifetime in a single semiconductor quantum dot

G Bacher, R Weigand, J Seufert, VD Kulakovskii… - Physical Review Letters, 1999 - APS
The decay characteristics of excitons and biexcitons in one single semiconductor quantum
dot (QD) are directly monitored using time-and spatially resolved photoluminescence …

Exciton-phonon coupling and disorder in the excited states of CdSe colloidal quantum dots

MR Salvador, MW Graham, GD Scholes - The Journal of chemical …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
We study the origin of the spectral line shape in colloidal CdSe nanocrystal quantum dots.
The three-pulse photon echo peak shift (3PEPS) data reveal a temperature-independent fast …

Radiative lifetime of excitons in ZnO nanocrystals: The dead-layer effect

VA Fonoberov, AA Balandin - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2004 - APS
We theoretically investigate exciton states of colloidal nearly spherical ZnO nanocrystals
with diameters from 2 nm to 6 nm. The sizes of considered ZnO nanocrystals are chosen to …

Functionalization of nanomaterials: synthesis and characterization

M Rizvi, H Gerengi, P Gupta - Functionalized nanomaterials for …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanotechnology has received immense attention due to its extraordinary and unexpected
results. It has widely found importance in fields like electronics, automotive, healthcare …

Scaling laws of exciton recombination kinetics in low dimensional halide perovskite nanostructures

M Gao, H Liu, S Yu, S Louisia, Y Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Carrier recombination is a crucial process governing the optical properties of a
semiconductor. Although various theoretical approaches have been utilized to describe …

Phonon-assisted oscillatory exciton dynamics in monolayer MoSe2

CM Chow, H Yu, AM Jones, JR Schaibley… - npj 2D Materials and …, 2017 - nature.com
In monolayer semiconductor transition metal dichalcogenides, the exciton–phonon
interaction strongly affects the photocarrier dynamics. Here, we report on an unusual …