Revealing the phonon bottleneck limit in negatively charged CdS quantum dots
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| author | Sherman, Skylar J. Hou, Bokang Coley-O'Rourke, Matthew J. Shulenberger, Katherine E. Pellows, Lauren Rabani, Eran Dukovic, Gordana |
| author_facet | Sherman, Skylar J. Hou, Bokang Coley-O'Rourke, Matthew J. Shulenberger, Katherine E. Pellows, Lauren Rabani, Eran Dukovic, Gordana |
| contents | The capture of photoexcited hot electrons in semiconductors before they lose their excess energy to cooling is a long-standing goal in photon energy conversion. Semiconductor nanocrystals have large electron energy spacings that are expected to slow down electron relaxation by phonon emission, but hot electrons in photoexcited nanocrystals nevertheless cool rapidly by energy transfer to holes. This makes the intrinsic phonon-bottleneck limited electron lifetime in nanocrystals elusive. We used a combination of theory and experiments to probe the hot electron dynamics of negatively charged Cadmium Sulfide (CdS) colloidal quantum dots (QDs) in the absence of holes. Experiments found that these hot electrons cooled on a 100 ps timescale. Theoretical simulations predicted that pure phonon-bottleneck limited electron cooling occurs on a similar timescale. This similarity suggests that the experimental measurements reflect the upper limit on hot electron lifetimes in these CdS QDs and the lower limit on the rates of processes that can harvest those hot electrons. |
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| spellingShingle | Revealing the phonon bottleneck limit in negatively charged CdS quantum dots Sherman, Skylar J. Hou, Bokang Coley-O'Rourke, Matthew J. Shulenberger, Katherine E. Pellows, Lauren Rabani, Eran Dukovic, Gordana Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics The capture of photoexcited hot electrons in semiconductors before they lose their excess energy to cooling is a long-standing goal in photon energy conversion. Semiconductor nanocrystals have large electron energy spacings that are expected to slow down electron relaxation by phonon emission, but hot electrons in photoexcited nanocrystals nevertheless cool rapidly by energy transfer to holes. This makes the intrinsic phonon-bottleneck limited electron lifetime in nanocrystals elusive. We used a combination of theory and experiments to probe the hot electron dynamics of negatively charged Cadmium Sulfide (CdS) colloidal quantum dots (QDs) in the absence of holes. Experiments found that these hot electrons cooled on a 100 ps timescale. Theoretical simulations predicted that pure phonon-bottleneck limited electron cooling occurs on a similar timescale. This similarity suggests that the experimental measurements reflect the upper limit on hot electron lifetimes in these CdS QDs and the lower limit on the rates of processes that can harvest those hot electrons. |
| title | Revealing the phonon bottleneck limit in negatively charged CdS quantum dots |
| topic | Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17365 |