Title :
Carrier multiplication in lead selenide nanorods probed with a superconducting nanowire single photon detector
Author :
Sandberg, Richard L. ; Padilha, Lazaro A. ; Qazilbash, M.Mumtaz ; Bae, Wan Ki ; Pietryga, Jeffrey M. ; Stevens, Martin J. ; Baek, Burm ; Nam, Sae Woo ; Klimov, Victor I.
Author_Institution :
Center for Integrated Nanotechnolgy, MPA Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.
Abstract :
We study carrier multiplication in colloidal nanocrystals with novel superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. The PbSe nanorods show a ∼80% increase in the multiexciton yield compared to spherical nanocrystals of the same band-gap energy.
Keywords :
IEEE Xplore; Portable document format;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6