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耦合胶体量子点分子的研究进展

Perspective on Coupled Colloidal Quantum Dot Molecules

Somnath Koley, Jiabin Cui, Yossef E. Panfil, Uri Banin

摘要:

原子的电子耦合和杂化是自然界中无数分子库的基础。胶体量子点(Colloidal quantum dots,CQDs)表现出量子强约束,具有s和p能级的类原子特性,使CQDs作为人工原子的概念得到了推广。继续这个类比,当两个原子足够接近形成一个分子,使得它们的轨道开始重叠时,轨道的能量开始分裂成由杂化轨道组成的成键和反键状态。相同的概念也适用于紧密接近的两个熔合的核-壳纳米晶体。它们的带边态决定了发射的光子能量,开始杂化,改变它们的电子和光学性质。因此,人造分子的一个令人兴奋的方向出现了多种可能性,用于创建具有新颖光电特性的新混合纳米结构的库,其与包括量子技术在内的各种应用相关。在一个模型融合的核-壳同二聚体分子中,杂化能量与结构连续性的程度,激子波函数的离域,以及数值计算的势垒厚度密切相关。杂化影响发射的光子统计,表现出更快的辐射衰减速率,光子聚束效应,和修改的俄歇复合途径相比,单体人工原子。纳米晶体化学范式的未来前景突出。

英文摘要:

Electronic coupling and hence hybridization of atoms serve as the basis for the rich properties of the endless library of naturally occurring molecules. Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) manifesting quantum strong confinement, possess atomic like characteristics with s and p electronic levels, which popularized the notion of CQDs as artificial atoms. Continuing this analogy, when two atoms are close enough to form a molecule so that their orbitals start overlapping, the orbitals' energies start to split into bonding and anti-bonding states made out of hybridized orbitals. The same concept is also applicable for two fused core-shell nanocrystals in close proximity. Their band-edge states, which dictate the emitted photon energy, start to hybridize changing their electronic and optical properties. Thus, an exciting direction of artificial molecules emerges leading to a multitude of possibilities for creating a library of new hybrid nanostructures with novel optoelectronic properties with relevance towards diverse applications including quantum technologies. In a model fused core-shell homodimer molecule, the hybridization energy is strongly correlated with the extent of structural continuity, the delocalization of the exciton wavefunction, and the barrier thickness as calculated numerically. The hybridization impacts the emitted photon statistics manifesting a faster radiative decay rate, photon bunching effect, and modified Auger recombination pathway compared to the monomer artificial atoms. Future perspectives for the nanocrystals chemistry paradigm are highlighted.

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