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Energy Transfer Between Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Organic Dye Molecules

  • Dzmitry Melnikau , Thomas Hendel , Pavel A. Linkov , Pavel S. Samokhvalov , Igor R. Nabiev and Yury P. Rakovich EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: March 15, 2018
Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie
From the journal Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie Volume 232 Issue 9-11

Abstract

An understanding of the mechanisms of energy transfer and conversion on the nanoscale is one of the key requirements for an implementation of highly efficient photonic nanodevices based on hybrid organic/inorganic nanomaterials. In this work we conduct steady-state and time resolved optical studies of the emission properties of an ensembles and single semiconductor quantum dots and attached organic dye molecules. We revealed that the luminescence intensity of a hybrid structure does not follow the blinking behavior of quantum dots. We also demonstrated an efficient single photon generation from single hybrid nanostructures which involves an energy transfer from donor to acceptor as main excitation source.

Keywords: photon antibunching; dye; energy transfer; nanocrystals; semiconductor quantum dots; single dot spectroscopy

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation under grant no. 14.Y26.31.0011. Y. R. and T. H. acknowledges support from Project Fis2016.80174-P (PLASMOQUANTA) from MINECO (Ministerio de Economiá y Competitividad), Spain.

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Received: 2018-02-07
Accepted: 2018-02-16
Published Online: 2018-03-15
Published in Print: 2018-08-28

©2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/zpch-2018-1144
Keywords for this article
photon antibunching; dye; energy transfer; nanocrystals; semiconductor quantum dots; single dot spectroscopy

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