Abstract
The structural, electronic, and optical properties of CdSe/CdS core-shell colloidal quantum dot molecules, a new class of coupled quantum dot dimers, are explored using atomistic approaches. Unlike the case of dimers grown by molecular beam epitaxy, simulated strain profile maps of free-standing colloidal dimers show negligible additional strain resulting from the attachment. The electronic properties of the relaxed dimers are described within a semiempirical pseudopotential model combined with the Bethe-Salpeter equation within the static screening approximation to account for electron-hole correlations. The interplay of strain, hybridization (tunneling splitting), quantum confinement, and electron-hole binding energies on the optical properties is analyzed and discussed. The effects of the dimensions of the neck connecting the two quantum dot building blocks, as well as the shell thickness, are studied.
| Original language | American English |
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| Article number | 134502 |
| Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 157 |
| Issue number | 13 |
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| State | Published - 7 Oct 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the NSF–BSF International Collaboration in the Division of Materials Research Program (NSF Grant No. DMR-2026741 and BSF Grant No. 2020618). Methods used in this work were provided by the Center for Computational Study of Excited State Phenomena in Energy Materials (C2SEPEM), which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, via Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, as part of the Computational Materials Sciences Program. Computational resources were provided, in part, by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. U.B. thanks the Alfred & Erica Larisch memorial chair. D.J. acknowledges the support of the Computational Science Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-SC0019323.
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