FCM Spoor
Broadband cooling spectra of hot electrons and holes in PbSe quantum dots
Spoor, FCM; Tomic, S; Houtepen, AJ; Siebbeles, LDA
Authors
S Tomic
AJ Houtepen
LDA Siebbeles
Abstract
Understanding cooling of hot charge carriers in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) is of fundamental interest and useful to enhance the performance of QDs in photovoltaics. We study electron and hole cooling dynamics in PbSe QDs up to high energies where carrier multiplication occurs. We characterize distinct cooling steps of hot electrons and holes and build up a broadband cooling spectrum for both charge carriers. Cooling of electrons is slower than of holes. At energies near the band gap we find cooling times between successive electronic energy levels in the order of 0.5 ps. We argue that here the large spacing between successive electronic energy levels requires cooling to occur by energy transfer to vibrational modes of ligand molecules or phonon modes associated with the QD surface. At high excess energy the energy loss rate of electrons is 1–5 eV/ps and exceeds 8 eV/ps for holes. Here charge carrier cooling can be understood in terms of emission of LO phonons with a higher density-of-states in the valence band than the conduction band. The complete mapping of the broadband cooling spectrum for both charge carriers in PbSe QDs is a big step toward understanding and controlling the cooling of hot charge carriers in colloidal QDs.
Citation
Spoor, F., Tomic, S., Houtepen, A., & Siebbeles, L. (2017). Broadband cooling spectra of hot electrons and holes in PbSe quantum dots. ACS nano, 11(6), 6286-6294. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b02506
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 30, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 6, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jun 27, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Jun 20, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 20, 2017 |
Journal | ACS Nano |
Print ISSN | 1936-0851 |
Publisher | American Chemical Society |
Volume | 11 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 6286-6294 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b02506 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b02506 |
Related Public URLs | http://pubs.acs.org/journal/ancac3 |
Additional Information | Funders : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC);EU COST |
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