Hot-carrier trapping preserves high quantum yields but limits optical gain in InP-based quantum dots
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| author | Vonk, Sander J. W. Prins, P. Tim Wang, Tong Matthys, Jan Giordano, Luca Schiettecatte, Pieter Mondal, Navendu van der Hoeven, Jessi E. S. Hopper, Thomas R. Hens, Zeger Geiregat, Pieter Bakulin, Artem A. Rabouw, Freddy T. |
| author_facet | Vonk, Sander J. W. Prins, P. Tim Wang, Tong Matthys, Jan Giordano, Luca Schiettecatte, Pieter Mondal, Navendu van der Hoeven, Jessi E. S. Hopper, Thomas R. Hens, Zeger Geiregat, Pieter Bakulin, Artem A. Rabouw, Freddy T. |
| contents | Indium phosphide is the leading material for commercial applications of colloidal quantum dots. To date, however, the community has failed to achieve successful operation under strong excitation conditions, contrasting sharply with other materials. Here, we report how the unusual photophysics of state-of-the-art InP-based quantum dots make them unattractive as a gain material. A combination of ensemble-based time-resolved spectroscopy over timescales from femtoseconds to microseconds and single-quantum-dot spectroscopy reveals ultrafast trapping of hot charge carriers. This process leads to charge-carrier losses, thereby reducing the achievable population inversion which limits amplification of light in a gain material. Interestingly, fluorescence is only delayed, not quenched, by hot charge-carrier trapping, explaining why InP-based quantum dots are successful as bright luminescent colour convertors for low-intensity applications. Comparison with other popular quantum-dot materials, such as CdSe, Pb-halide perovskites, and CuInS2, indicate that the hot-carrier dynamics observed are unique to InP. |
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| spellingShingle | Hot-carrier trapping preserves high quantum yields but limits optical gain in InP-based quantum dots Vonk, Sander J. W. Prins, P. Tim Wang, Tong Matthys, Jan Giordano, Luca Schiettecatte, Pieter Mondal, Navendu van der Hoeven, Jessi E. S. Hopper, Thomas R. Hens, Zeger Geiregat, Pieter Bakulin, Artem A. Rabouw, Freddy T. Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Indium phosphide is the leading material for commercial applications of colloidal quantum dots. To date, however, the community has failed to achieve successful operation under strong excitation conditions, contrasting sharply with other materials. Here, we report how the unusual photophysics of state-of-the-art InP-based quantum dots make them unattractive as a gain material. A combination of ensemble-based time-resolved spectroscopy over timescales from femtoseconds to microseconds and single-quantum-dot spectroscopy reveals ultrafast trapping of hot charge carriers. This process leads to charge-carrier losses, thereby reducing the achievable population inversion which limits amplification of light in a gain material. Interestingly, fluorescence is only delayed, not quenched, by hot charge-carrier trapping, explaining why InP-based quantum dots are successful as bright luminescent colour convertors for low-intensity applications. Comparison with other popular quantum-dot materials, such as CdSe, Pb-halide perovskites, and CuInS2, indicate that the hot-carrier dynamics observed are unique to InP. |
| title | Hot-carrier trapping preserves high quantum yields but limits optical gain in InP-based quantum dots |
| topic | Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19565 |