Charged two-exciton emission from a single semiconductor nanocrystal

摘要

Here, we study the photoluminescence (PL) time trajectories of single CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals (NCs) as a function of the laser excitation power. At the low laser power, the PL intensity of a single NC switches between the "on" and "off" levels arising from the neutral and positively charged single excitons, respectively. With the increasing laser power, an intermediate "grey" level is formed due to the optical emission from a charged multiexciton state composed of two excitons and an extra electron. Both the inter-photon correlation and the PL decay measurements demonstrate that lifetime-indistinguishable photon pairs are emitted from this negatively charged two-exciton state.