TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-range electronic-to-vibrational energy transfer from nanocrystals to their surrounding matrix environment
AU - Aharoni, Assaf
AU - Oron, Dan
AU - Banin, Uri
AU - Rabani, Eran
AU - Jortner, Joshua
PY - 2008/2/6
Y1 - 2008/2/6
N2 - A radiationless transition process of long-range, resonance interconversion of electronic-to-vibrational energy transfer (EVET) is discovered between the band-gap excitation of nanocrystal quantum dots to matrix vibrational overtone modes using fluorescence lifetime measurements. A theoretical analysis based on long-range dipole-dipole nonadiabatic couplings, being distinct from the traditional adiabatic or "static-coupling" pictures, is given and is in qualitative agreement with experiments. EVET should be considered in matrix choices for near-infrared optoelectronic applications of nanocrystals.
AB - A radiationless transition process of long-range, resonance interconversion of electronic-to-vibrational energy transfer (EVET) is discovered between the band-gap excitation of nanocrystal quantum dots to matrix vibrational overtone modes using fluorescence lifetime measurements. A theoretical analysis based on long-range dipole-dipole nonadiabatic couplings, being distinct from the traditional adiabatic or "static-coupling" pictures, is given and is in qualitative agreement with experiments. EVET should be considered in matrix choices for near-infrared optoelectronic applications of nanocrystals.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.057404
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.057404
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AN - SCOPUS:38949100491
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 100
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 5
M1 - 057404
ER -