Fluorescence blinking statistics from single CdSe nanorods

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2006-03-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603331v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

37 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

We report fluorescence blinking statistics measured from single CdSe nanorods (NRs) of seven different sizes with aspect ratio ranging from 3 to 11. This study included core/shell CdSe/ZnSe NRs and core NRs with two different surface ligands producing different degrees of surface passivation. We compare the findings for NRs to our measurements of blinking statistics from spherical CdSe core and CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals (NCs). We find that for both NRs and spherical NCs, the off-time probability distributions are well described by a power law, while the on-time probability distributions are best described by a truncated power law. The measured crossover time is indistinguishable within experimental uncertainty for core and core/shell NRs, and for core NRs with different ligands, indicating that surface passivation does not affect the blinking statistics significantly. We find that at fixed excitation intensity, the inverse crossover time increases approximately linearly with increasing NR aspect ratio; for a given sample, the inverse crossover time increases very gradually with increasing excitation intensity. The measured per-particle absorption cross section for all samples indicates that the change in NR absorption cross-section with sample size can account for some but not all of the differences in crossover time. This suggests that the degree of quantum confinement may be partially responsible for the aspect ratio dependence of the crossover time.

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