Colloidal Quantum Wells for Energy Manipulations on Fast Timescales
Richard Schaller a b
a Argonne National Laboratory, 9800 South Cass Ave., Argonne, IL, 60439, United States
b Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States, Evanston, Illinois, EE. UU., Evanston, United States
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of nanoGe Fall Meeting 2018 (NFM18)
S6 Solution-based Two-dimensional Nanomaterials Sol2D
Torremolinos, Spain, 2018 October 22nd - 26th
Organizers: Christophe Delerue, Sandrine Ithurria and Christian Klinke
Invited Speaker, Richard Schaller, presentation 116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nfm.2018.116
Publication date: 6th July 2018

The rapid development of colloidally synthesized, two-dimensional nanoplatelets with precise thickness-tunable, narrow band-edge absorption and photoluminescence unlock several classes of investigations. We have examined charge and energy transfer involving these structures for purposes of energy capture and conversion and lighting. Particularly fast transfer of excitations between self-assembled, co-facial arrangements of thinner donor and thicker acceptor structures is found and modeled. Electron transfer rates for four isoenergetic donor–acceptor pairs comprising a well-known molecular electron acceptor and controlled lateral extents of nanoparticles, examined via ultrafast photoluminescence, relate a dependence of charge transfer rate on the spatial extent of the electron–hole pair wave function explicitly. A nonlinear dependence of rate with surface area is attributed to exciton delocalization within each structure, which we show via temperature-dependent absorption measurements remains constant.

The rapid development of colloidally synthesized, two-dimensional nanoplatelets with precise thickness-tunable, narrow band-edge absorption and photoluminescence unlock several classes of investigations. We have examined charge and energy transfer involving these structures for purposes of energy capture and conversion and lighting. Particularly fast transfer of excitations between self-assembled, co-facial arrangements of thinner donor and thicker acceptor structures is found and modeled. Electron transfer rates for four isoenergetic donor–acceptor pairs comprising a well-known molecular electron acceptor and controlled lateral extents of nanoparticles, examined via ultrafast photoluminescence, relate a dependence of charge transfer rate on the spatial extent of the electron–hole pair wave function explicitly. A nonlinear dependence of rate with surface area is attributed to exciton delocalization within each structure, which we show via temperature-dependent absorption measurements remains constant.

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