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Heralded Spectroscopy: a new single-particle probe for nanocrystal photophysics

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Ivan Michel Antolovic
2023
Conference Papers

Abstract

Semiconductor nanocrystals feature multiply-excited states that display intriguing physics and significantly impact nanocrystal-based technologies. Fluorescence supplies a natural probe to investigate these states. Still, direct observation of multiexciton fluorescence has proved elusive to existing spectroscopy techniques. Heralded Spectroscopy is a new tool based on a breakthrough single-particle, single-photon, sub-nanosecond spectrometer that utilizes temporal photon correlations to isolate multiexciton emission. This proceedings paper introduces Heralded Spectroscopy and reviews some of the novel insights it uncovered into exciton-exciton interactions within single nanocrystals. These include weak exciton-exciton interactions and their correlation with quantum confinement, biexciton spectral diffusion, multiple biexciton species and biexciton emission polarization.

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Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Ivan Michel Antolovic
2023
Conference Papers

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/0b942179-3b6f-4a34-b438-f6a476ce7307

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