The surface of semiconductor nanocrystals is one of their defining features by virtue of their
nanometer size. Yet the surface is presently among the most poorly understood aspects of …

Over the last two decades, intensive research efforts have been devoted to the suppressions
of photoluminescence (PL) blinking and Auger recombination in metal-chalcogenide …

Colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) exhibit broadband light absorption,
continuously tunable narrowband emission, and high photoluminescence quantum yields …

Efficient biexciton (BX) photoluminescence (PL) from quantum dots (QDs) paves the way to
the generation of entangled photons and related applications. However, the quantum yield …

Tunable, high-performance, two-photon absorption (TPA)-based amplified spontaneous
emission (ASE) from near-unity quantum efficiency colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) is …

To confirm the existence of the carrier multiplication (CM) effect and estimate its generation
efficiency of multiple excitons in semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), it is imperative to …

An understanding of blinking behavior and photodynamics is crucial for improving the
optical properties of quantum dots (QDs). Here we report the emission blinking behavior and …

Type-tunable optical gain performance of core-seeded CdSe/CdS nanorods is studied via
two-photon optical pumping. Controlling the exciton–exciton interaction by varying the core …

Photoluminescence (PL) decay dynamics of multiexcitons in semiconductor nanocrystals
(NCs) are dominated by the nonradiative Auger effect, making it difficult to explore their …

Presence of heterojunctions is important for generation of free charge carriers and the
dissociation of bound electron–hole pairs in semiconductor nanoparticles. This work …