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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5261-3210

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Article

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Electrical and electronic engineering

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American Chemical Society

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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01952

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01952

Abstract

The optical properties of lead sulfide quantum dots (QDs) of different sizes embedded in a nanoporous silicate glass matrix (NSM) are investigated by steady-state and transient photoluminescence spectroscopy. The use of this matrix allows the fabrication of samples with reproducible optical characteristics, for both isolated and close-packed QDs. Low-temperature PL analysis of isolated QDs with sizes of 3.7 and 4.5 nm shows that the coefficient of temperature shift of the PL position changes sign with reducing QD size because of size-dependent contributions from thermal expansion, mechanical strain, and electron–phonon coupling. The PL intensity is determined by size-dependent splitting of the lowest energy electronic state.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01952

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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