Surface Charge Control of Quantum Dot Blinking
Surface Charge Control of Quantum Dot Blinking
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b07779
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发表时间:
2016-09-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Magennis, Steven W.
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作者:
Quinn, Steven D.;Rafferty, Aidan;Magennis, Steven W.
A characteristic property of colloidal conductor nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs) is their emission intermittency. Although a unifying theory of QD photo processes remains elusive, the importance of charged states is clear. We now report a new approach to directly study the role of surface charge on QD emission by adding metal ions to individual, core-only QDs immobilized in aqueous solution in an agarose gel. The CdTe QDs shbw very stable emission in the absence of metal ions but a dramatic and reversible increase in blinking due to the resence of trivalent metal ions. Our results support a charge-separation model, in which the major blinking pathway is the surface trapping of electrons; transiently bound metal ions dose to the QD surface enhance this process.