The end is different than the middle: Spatially dependent dynamics in ZnO rods observed by femtosecond pump-probe microscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1777-1781

  Mehl, Brian P ^a   Kirschbrown, Justin R ^a   House, Ralph L ^a   Papanikolas, John M ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTRON HOLE; ELECTRON HOLE PLASMA; EMISSION MEASUREMENT; FEMTOSECONDS; PHYSICAL CONFINEMENT; PUMP-PROBE; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL DIFFERENCES; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; ULTRA-FAST; ZNO ROD;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PUMPS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

PROBES;

EID: 79960705858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200809c     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Djurisic, A. B.; Leung, Y. H. Optical Properties of ZnO Nanostructures Small 2006, 2, 944-961
2. Suhling, K.; French, P. M. W.; Phillips, D. Time-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2005, 4, 13-22 (Pubitemid 40207982)
3. Okamoto, K.; Scherer, A.; Kawakami, Y. Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopic Transient Lens for Carrier Dynamics Study in InGaN/GaN Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 87, 161104
4. Terada, Y.; Yoshida, S.; Takeuchi, O.; Shigekawa, H. Real-Space Imaging of Transient Carrier Dynamics by Nanoscale Pump-Probe Microscopy Nat. Photonics 2010, 4, 869-874
5. Anderson, A.; Deryckx, K. S.; Xu, X. J. G.; Steinmeyer, G.; Raschke, M. B. Few-Femtosecond Plasmon Dephasing of a Single Metallic Nanostructure from Optical Response Function Reconstruction by Interferometric Frequency Resolved Optical Gating Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 2519-2524
6. Gundlach, L.; Piotrowiak, P. Femtosecond Kerr-Gated Wide-Field Fluorescence Microscopy Opt. Lett. 2008, 33, 992-994
7. Djurisic, A. B.; Kwok, W. M.; Leung, Y. H.; Phillips, D. L.; Chan, W. K. Stimulated Emission in ZnO Nanostructures: A Time-Resolved Study J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 19228-19233 (Pubitemid 41541126)
8. Song, J. K.; Willer, U.; Szarko, J. M.; Leone, S. R.; Li, S.; Zhao, Y. Ultrafast Upconversion Probing of Lasing Dynamics in Single ZnO Nanowire Lasers J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 1679-1684 (Pubitemid 351288284)
9. Johnson, J. C.; Knutsen, K. P.; Yan, H. Q.; Law, M.; Zhang, Y. F.; Yang, P. D.; Saykally, R. J. Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Single ZnO Nanowire and Nanoribbon Lasers Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 197-204 (Pubitemid 38292887)
10. Huang, L. B.; Hartland, G. V.; Chu, L. Q.; Luxmi; Feenstra, R. M.; Lian, C. X.; Tahy, K.; Xing, H. L. Ultrafast Transient Absorption Microscopy Studies of Carrier Dynamics in Epitaxial Graphene Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 1308-1313
11. Carey, C. R.; Yu, Y. H.; Kuno, M.; Hartland, G. V. Ultrafast Transient Absorption Measurements of Charge Carrier Dynamics in Single II-VI Nanowires J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 19077-19081
12. Fujino, T.; Fujima, T.; Tahara, T. Femtosecond Fluorescence Dynamics Imaging Using a Fluorescence up-Conversion Microscope J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 15327-15331 (Pubitemid 41260777)
13. Fu, D.; Ye, T.; Matthews, T. E.; Grichnik, J.; Hong, L.; Simon, J. D.; Warren, W. S. Probing Skin Pigmentation Changes with Transient Absorption Imaging of Eumelanin and Pheomelanin J. Biomed. Opt. 2008, 13, 054036
14. Polli, D.; Grancini, G.; Clark, J.; Celebrano, M.; Virgili, T.; Cerullo, G.; Lanzani, G. Nanoscale Imaging of the Interface Dynamics in Polymer Blends by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Confocal Microscopy Adv. Mater. 2010, 22, 3048-3051
15. Cadby, A.; Dean, R.; Fox, A. M.; Jones, R. A. L.; Lidzey, D. G. Mapping the Fluorescence Decay Lifetime of a Conjugated Polymer in a Phase-Separated Blend Using a Scanning near-Field Optical Microscope Nano Lett. 2005, 5, 2232-2237 (Pubitemid 41698944)
16. Cheng, B.; Shi, W. S.; Russell-Tanner, J. M.; Zhang, L.; Samulski, E. T. Synthesis of Variable-Aspect-Ratio, Single-Crystalline ZnO Nanostructures Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 1208-1214
17. House, R. L.; Mehl, B. P.; Kirschbrown, J. R.; Barnes, S. C.; Papanikolas, J. M. Characterizing the Ultrafast Charge Carrier Trapping Dynamics in Single ZnO Rods Using Two-Photon Emission Microscopy J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 10806-10816
18. Ozgur, U.; Alivov, Y. I.; Liu, C.; Teke, A.; Reshchikov, M. A.; Dogan, S.; Avrutin, V.; Cho, S. J.; Morkoc, H. A Comprehensive Review of ZnO Materials and Devices J. Appl. Phys. 2005, 98, 041301
19. Lin, J. H.; Chen, Y. J.; Lin, H. Y.; Hsieh, W. F. Two-Photon Resonance Assisted Huge Nonlinear Refraction and Absorption in ZnO Thin Films J. Appl. Phys. 2005, 97, 033526
20. Mehl, B. P.; House, R. L.; Uppal, A.; Reams, A. J.; Zhang, C.; Kirschbrown, J. R.; Papanikolas, J. M. Direct Imaging of Optical Cavity Modes in ZnO Rods Using Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy J. Phys. Chem. A 2010, 114, 1241-1246
21. Johnson, J. C.; Yan, H. Q.; Yang, P. D.; Saykally, R. J. Optical Cavity Effects in ZnO Nanowire Lasers and Waveguides J. Phys. Chem. B 2003, 107, 8816-8828
22. Nobis, T.; Grundmann, M. Low-Order Optical Whispering-Gallery Modes in Hexagonal Nanocavities Phys. Rev. A 2005, 72, 063806
23. Bauer, C.; Boschloo, G.; Mukhtar, E.; Hagfeldt, A. Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics of Charge Carriers Relaxation in ZnO Nanocrystalline Thin Films Chem. Phys. Lett. 2004, 389, 449-449
24. Klingshirn, C. F. Zinc Oxide from Fundamental Properties Towards Novel Applications, 1 st ed.; Springer: Berlin, Germany, 2010.
25. Yamamoto, A.; Kido, T.; Goto, Y. F.; Chen, Y.; Yao, T.; Kasuya, A. Dynamics of Photoexcited Carriers in ZnO Epitaxial Thin Films Appl. Phys. Lett. 1999, 75, 469-471 (Pubitemid 129308318)
26. Hendry, E.; Koeberg, M.; Bonn, M. Exciton and Electron-Hole Plasma Formation Dynamics in ZnO Phys. Rev. B 2007, 76, 045214