As a result of quantum-confinement effects, the emission colour of semiconductor nanocrystals can be modified dramatically by simply changing their size. Such spectral tunability, together with large photoluminescence quantum yields and high photostability, make nanocrystals attractive for use in a variety of light-emitting technologies--for example, displays, fluorescence tagging, solid-state lighting and lasers. An important limitation for such applications, however, is the difficulty of achieving electrical pumping, largely due to the presence of an insulating organic capping layer on the nanocrystals. Here, we describe an approach for indirect injection of electron-hole pairs (the electron-hole radiative recombination gives rise to light emission) into nanocrystals by non-contact, non-radiative energy transfer from a proximal quantum well that can in principle be pumped either electrically or optically. Our theoretical and experimental results indicate that this transfer is fast enough to compete with electron-hole recombination in the quantum well, and results in greater than 50 per cent energy-transfer efficiencies in the tested structures. Furthermore, the measured energy-transfer rates are sufficiently large to provide pumping in the stimulated emission regime, indicating the feasibility of nanocrystal-based optical amplifiers and lasers based on this approach.
We demonstrate control and improvement of charge injection in organic electronic devices by utilizing self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) to manipulate the Schottky energy barrier between a metal electrode and the organic electronic material. Hole injection from Cu electrodes into the electroluminescent conjugated polymer poly[2-methoxy,5-(2′-ethyl-hexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene] was varied by using two conjugated-thiol based SAMs. The chemically modified electrodes were incorporated in organic diode structures and changes in the metal/polymer Schottky energy barriers and current–voltage characteristics were measured. Decreasing (increasing) the Schottky energy barrier improves (degrades) charge injection into the polymer.
We present a comparative study of ultrafast photoconversion dynamics in tetracene (Tc) and pentacene (Pc) single crystals and Pc films using optical pump-probe spectroscopy. Photoinduced absorption in Tc and Pc crystals is activated and temperature-independent, respectively, demonstrating dominant singlet-triplet exciton fission. In Pc films (as well as C60-doped films) this decay channel is suppressed by electron trapping. These results demonstrate the central role of crystallinity and purity in photogeneration processes and will constrain the design of future photovoltaic devices.
The spin correlation function,, has a Fourier transform S(ω) that is proportional to the measured power spectrum of δθ F (t).A typical noise spectrum from rubidium vapor is shown in Fig. 1b, taken with the laser detuned 25 GHz from the D1 transition. The sharp peaks at frequencies Ω=869and 1303 kHz are due to random spin fluctuations which are precessing in the small 1.85G transverse magnetic field, effectively generating spontaneous spin coherences between ground-state Zeeman sublevels. These coherences precess with effective g- atomic ground state into two hyperfine F-levels with total spin and g-factor, where is the free electron g-factor. Thus, the nuclear spin of 2 ≅ J g 85 Rb (I=5/2) and 87 Rb (I=3/2) may be directly measured from spin fluctuations in thermal equilibrium. Noise spectra acquired near the D2 transition show similar peaks (inset, Fig. 1b), which move as expected with magnetic field. The 13 kHz measured width of these noise peaks indicates an effective transverse spin dephasing time ~100µs, much less than the known Rb spin lifetime (~1s), due largely to the transit time of atoms across the ~100 µm laser diameter. The spectral density of the spin noise is small --the 87 Rb peak in Fig. 1b = ∆That the off-resonant laser non-perturbatively probes spin fluctuations is evidenced in Fig. 2 (Fig. 3c,d Finally, we show that fluctuation correlation spectra can reveal detailed information about complex magnetic ground states arising from, e.g., nuclear magnetism and hyperfine interactions. Figure 4a shows the spin noise spectrum in 39 K.With increasing magnetic field, the noise peak broadens and eventually splits into 4 resolvable spin coherences. This is the well-known quadratic Zeeman effect, which originates in the gradual decoupling of the electron and nuclear spin (the hyperfine interaction) by the applied magnetic field. Within each hyperfine level (see Fig. 4b), the 2F+1 Zeeman levels become unequally spaced, resulting in 2F distinct coherences . The photodiode difference current is converted to voltage (transimpedance gain=40V/mA, or ~20V/mWatt of unbalanced laser power at 790 nm) and measured in a spectrum analyzer. Above a few kilohertz, the measured noise floor arises primarily from photon shot noise, which contributes ~175 nV/ Hz of spectrally flat (white) noise at a typical laser power of 200 µW. The photodiodes and amplifier contribute an additional 65 nV/ Hz of uncorrelated white noise. All noise spectral densities are root-mean-square (rms) values, and spectra were typically signal-averaged for 10-20 minutes. The accuracy of measured hyperfine constants and g-factors was imposed by the gauss resolution of the Hall bar magnetic field sensor. Measurement of inter-hyperfine spin coherence (Fig. 4d) was performed with a higher-bandwidth, lower gain amplifier (~0.70 V/mA), and a typical laser power of 3.5 mW. Unless otherwise stated, measurements of rubidium (potassium) vapor were performed with 250 (125) Torr of nitrogen buffer gas, which broadens the linewidth of the D1 and D2 optical tran...
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