A probabilistic model of the electron transport in films of PbSe nanocrystals arranged in a cubic lattice

The fabrication of nanocrystal (NC) films, starting from colloidal dispersion, is a very attractive topic in condensed matter physics community. NC films can be employed for transistors, light emitting diodes, laser, and solar cells. For this reason the understanding of the film conductivity is of major importance. In this paper we describe a probabilistic model that allow to predict the conductivity of the NC films, in this case of a cubic lattice of Lead Selenide NCs. The model is based on the hopping probability between NCs show a comparison with experimental data reported in literature.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure

Light-induced switching in pDTE - FICO 1D photonic structures

We propose the design of 1D photonic crystals and microcavities in which fluorine-indium codoped cadmium oxide (FICO) nanocrystal based layers and layers of diarylethene-based polyester (pDTE) are alternated or embedded in a microcavity. The irradiation with UV light results in two different behaviours: i) it dopes the FICO nanocrystals inducing a blue shift of their plasmonic resonances; ii) it changes the real part of the refractive index of the photochromic pDTE polymer. These two behaviours are combined in the proposed photonic structures and can be useful for switchable filters and cavities for light emission.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure