Universal emission intermittency in quantum dots, nanorods, and nanowires

Details Universal emission intermittency in quantum dots, nanorods, and nanowires Universal emission intermittency in quantum dots, nanorods, and nanowires

2008-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/0810.2509v3

Nature Physics 4 (2008) 519

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, 2 figures, Accepted version

Scientific paper

10.1038/nphys1001

Virtually all known fluorophores, including semiconductor nanoparticles, nanorods and nanowires exhibit unexplainable episodes of intermittent emission blinking. A most remarkable feature of the fluorescence intermittency is a universal power law distribution of on- and off-times. For nanoparticles the resulting power law extends over an extraordinarily wide dynamic range: nine orders of magnitude in probability density and five to six orders of magnitude in time. The exponents hover about the ubiquitous value of -3/2. Dark states routinely last for tens of seconds, which are practically forever on quantum mechanical time scales. Despite such infinite states of darkness, the dots miraculously recover and start emitting again. Although the underlying mechanism responsible for this phenomenon remains an enduring mystery and many questions remain, we argue that substantial theoretical progress has been made.

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