title: The influence of surface trapping and dark states on the fluorescence emission efficiency and lifetime of CdSe and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots.
abstract: To investigate the influence of surface trapping and dark states on CdSe and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs), we studied the absorption, fluorescence intensity and lifetime by using one-and two-photon excitation, respectively. Experimental results show that both one- and two-photon fluorescence emission efficiencies of the QDs enhance greatly and the lifetime increase after capping CdSe with ZnS due to the effective surface passivation. The lifetime of one-photon fluorescence of CdSe and CdSe/ZnS QDs increase with increasing emission wavelength in a supralinear way, which is attributed to the energy transfer of dark excitons. On the contrary, the lifetime of two-photon fluorescence of bare and core-shell QDs decrease with increasing emission wavelength, and this indicates that the surface trapping is the dominant decay mechanism in this case.
authors: Department of Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
authors: Hong-Mei
authors: HM
authors: Gong
authors: Zhang-Kai
authors: ZK
authors: Zhou
authors: Hao
authors: H
authors: Song
authors: Zhong-Hua
authors: ZH
authors: Hao
authors: Jun-Bo
authors: JB
authors: Han
authors: Yue-Ying
authors: YY
authors: Zhai
authors: Si
authors: S
authors: Xiao
authors: Qu-Quan
authors: QQ
authors: Wang
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