Photoluminescence decay rate engineering of CdSe quantum dots in ensemble arrays embedded with gold nano-antennae

Haridas, M and Basu, JK and Tiwari, AK and Venkatapathi, M (2013) Photoluminescence decay rate engineering of CdSe quantum dots in ensemble arrays embedded with gold nano-antennae. In: Journal of Applied Physics, 114 (6). 064305_1-064305_6.

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Abstract

We discuss experimental results on the ability to significantly tune the photoluminescence decay rates of CdSe quantum dots embedded in an ordered template, using lightly doped small gold nanoparticles (nano-antennae), of relatively low optical efficiency. We observe both enhancement and quenching of photoluminescence intensity of the quantum dots varying monotonically with increasing volume fraction of added gold nanoparticles, with respect to undoped quantum dot arrays. However, the corresponding variation in lifetime of photoluminescence spectra decay shows a hitherto unobserved, non-monotonic variation with gold nanoparticle doping. We also demonstrate that Purcell effect is quite effective for the larger (5 nm) gold nano-antenna leading to more than four times enhanced radiative rate at spectral resonance, for largest doping and about 1.75 times enhancement for off-resonance. Significantly for spectral off-resonance samples, we could simultaneously engineer reduction of non-radiative decay rate along with increase of radiative decay rate. Non-radiative decay dominates the system for the smaller (2 nm) gold nano-antenna setting the limit on how small these plasmonic nano-antennae could be to be effective in engineering significant enhancement in radiative decay rate and, hence, the overall quantum efficiency of quantum dot based hybrid photonic assemblies.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Applied Physics
Publisher:	American Institute of Physics
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Institute of Physics.
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2013 08:33
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2013 08:33
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/47398

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