Characterizing quantum-dot blinking using noise power spectra

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 819-821

  Pelton, Matthew ^a   Grier, David G ^a   Guyot Sionnest, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROSCOPIC ENSEMBLES; ROOM TEMPERATURE (RT); SILICON PHOTODIODES; TRIOCTYL PHOSPHINE OXIDES (TOPO);

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COLLOIDS; CORRELATION METHODS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; LASERS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PHOTODIODES; POLYSTYRENES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICS; THEOREM PROVING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 4344590032     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1779356     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. M. Nirmal, B. O. Dabbousi, M. G. Bawendi, J. J. Macklin, J. K. Trautman, T. D. Harris, and L. E. Brus, Nature (London) 383, 802 (1996).
2. M. Kuno, D. P. Fromm, H. F. Hamann, A. Gailagher, and D. J. Nesbitt, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 1028 (2001).
3. K. T. Shimizu, R. G. Neuhauser, C. A. Leatherdale, S. A. Empedocles, W. K. Woo, and M. G. Bawendi, Phys. Rev. B 63, 205316 (2001).
4. X. Brokman, J.-P. Hermier, G. Messin, P. Desbiolles, J.-P. Bouchard, and M. Dahan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 120601 (2003).
5. C. B. Murray, D. J. Norris, and M. G. Bawendi, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115, 8706 (1993).
6. M. A. Hines and P. Guyot-Sionnest, J. Phys. Chem. 100, 468 (1996).
7. R. Verbeck, A. M. van Oijen, and M. Orrit, Phys. Rev. B 66, 233202 (2002).
8. M. Kuno, D. P. Fromm, S. T. Johnson, A. Gallagher, and D. J. Nesbitt, Phys. Rev. B 67, 125304 (2003).
9. W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, and B. P. Flannert, Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd ed (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992).
10. Lévy Flights and Related Topics in Physics, edited by M. F. Shlesinger, G. M. Zeslavsky, and U. Frisch (Springer, Berlin, 1995), p. 153. The treatment of Lévy walks can be directly mapped onto blinking quantum dots, by associating the duration of free paths with the duration of on and off periods, and the velocity during the free paths with the fluoresence intensity during the on and off periods.
11. G. Zumofen and J. Klafter, Physica D 69, 436 (1993).
12. R. Verbeck and M. Orrit, J. Chem. Phys. 119, 2214 (2003).
13. Y. Jung, E. Barkai, and R. J. Silbey, Chem. Phys. 284, 181 (2002).
14. G. Messin, J. P. Hermier, E. Giacobino, P. Desbiolles, and M. Dahan, Opt. Lett. 26, 1891 (2001).
15. D. R. Larson, W. R. Zipfel, R. M. Williams, S. W. Clark, M. P. Bruchez, F. W. Wise, and W. W. Webb, Science 300, 1434 (2003).