Colloidal Quantum Dot Molecules: Synthesis, Multiexciton Spectroscopy and Color Switching
Uri Banin a
a Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Jerusalem
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS Fall 2024 Conference (MATSUSFall24)
#NANOFUN - Functional Nanomaterials: from materials to applications.
Lausanne, Switzerland, 2024 November 12th - 15th
Organizers: Emmanuel Lhuillier and Shalini Singh
Invited Speaker, Uri Banin, presentation 326
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusfall.2024.326
Publication date: 28th August 2024

Colloidal semiconductor Quantum Dots (QDs), often considered as artificial atoms, have reached an exquisite level of control, alongside gaining fundamental understanding of their size, composition and surface-controlled properties, as recognized by the Nobel prize in Chemistry 2023. Their tuned characteristics and scalable bottom-up synthesis accompanied by the applicability of solution based manipulation, have led to their wide implementation in displays, lasers, light emitting diodes, single photon sources, photodetectors and more.

For the next step towards enhancing their functionalities, inspired by molecular chemistry, we introduce the controlled linking and fusion of two core/shell quantum dots creating an artificial molecule manifesting two coupled emitting centers. Accordingly, the coupled colloidal quantum dot molecules (CQDMs) present novel behaviors differing than their quantum dot building blocks. First, two types of biexcitons coexist as observed via heralded spectroscopy. Moreover, such CQDMs open the path to a novel electric field induced instantaneous color switching effect, allowing color tuning without intensity loss, that is not possible in single quantum dots. All in all, such quantum dot molecules, manifesting two coupled emission centers, may be tailored to emit distinct colors, opening the path for sensitive field sensing and color switchable devices such as a novel pixel design for displays or an electric field color tunable single photon source

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