Date of Award
Spring 2009
Document Type
Restricted Thesis
Terms of Use
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Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Physics & Astronomy Department
First Advisor
Catherine Hirshfeld Crouch
Abstract
We report measurements of the excitation energy dependence of the fluorescence intermittency of single CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals (NCs) using two different excitation energies. The lower excitation wavelength, 532 nm, corresponds to excitation 270 me V above the band gap. The higher energy, 405 nm, corresponds to excitation 1000 me V above the band gap. At each excitation energy, 77 individual NCs were measured for 1500 s. The off-time probability density distribution from each individual NC follows a power law with a distribution of slopes that is insensitive to the difference in excitation energy studied. The on-time probability density distributions for individual and aggregated data follow a truncated power law with slope distributions that are also insensitive to the difference in excitation energy. However, the distribution of truncation times obtained from the individual NCs at 405 nm excitation is peaked at a shorter value than the distribution obtained with 532 nm excitation. These results suggest that blinking dynamics change for excitation far above the 1P3/21Pe state.
Recommended Citation
Mohr, Robert , '09, "Excitation Energy Dependence of Fluorescence Intermittency in Core/Shell CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals" (2009). Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards. 666.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/theses/666