Biexciton binding energy and line width of single quantum dots at room temperature
Freddy Rabouw a, Sander Vonk a, Bart Heemskerk a, Robert Keitel b, Stijn Hinterding a, Jaco Geuchies c, Arjan Houtepen c
a Utrecht University, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Netherlands
b Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
c Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, Netherlands
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of nanoGe Spring Meeting 2022 (NSM22)
#NANOQ22. Colloidal Semiconductor nanocrystals for Quantum Technologies
Online, Spain, 2022 March 7th - 11th
Organizers: Francesco Di Stasio, Iwan Moreels and Riccardo Sapienza
Invited Speaker, Freddy Rabouw, presentation 194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nsm.2022.194
Publication date: 7th February 2022

The spectrum of multiexciton emission from colloidal quantum dots at room temperature is important for their use in high-power applications, but an in-depth characterization has not been possible until now. We present and apply a novel spectroscopic method to quantify the biexciton linewidth and biexciton binding energy of single CdSe/CdS/ZnS colloidal QDs. In our method, we select photons emitted by a biexciton emission cascade and reconstruct their spectrum. We find a biexciton linewidth of 86 meV on the single-QD scale, similar to that of the exciton. Variations in the biexciton energy are correlated with but are more narrowly distributed than variations in the exciton energy. Using a simple quantum-mechanical model, we conclude that inhomogeneous broadening in our sample is primarily due to variations in the CdS shell thickness.

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