Photothermal Absorption Spectroscopy of Individual Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Photothermal heterodyne detection is used to record the first room-temperature absorption spectra of single CdSe/ZnS semiconductor nanocrystals. These spectra are recorded in the high cw excitation regime, and the observed bands are assigned to transitions involving biexciton and trion states. Comparison with the single nanocrystals photoluminescence spectra leads to the measurement of spectral Stokes shifts free from ensemble averaging

Effect of correlation and dielectric confinement on 1S1/2(e)nS3/2(h)Excitons in CdTe/CdSe and CdSe/CdTe Type-II quantum dots

Controlled reduction of graphene oxide is an alternative and promising method to tune the electronic and optically active energy gap of this two-dimensional material in the energy range of the visible light spectrum. By means of ab initio calculations, based on hybrid density functional theory, that combine the Hartree–Fock method with the generalized gradient approximation (GGA), we investigated the electronic, optical, and radiative recombination properties of partially reduced graphene oxide, modelled as small islands of pristine graphene formed in an infinite sheet of graphene oxide. We predict that tuning of optically active gaps, in the wide range from ∼6.5 eV to ∼0.25 eV, followed by the electron radiative transition times in the range from ns to μs, can be effected by controlling the level of oxidization

Dynamics of solids at low temperatures studied with single molecules

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Dynamics of solids at low temperatures studied with single molecules

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Dynamics of solids at low temperatures studied with single molecules

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Investigations of local currents in a semiconductor by single-molecule spectroscopy

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Probing local currents in semiconductors with single molecules

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Probing local currents in semiconductors with single molecules

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