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Enhanced luminescence, electric-field and actinic-light modulation of emission in nematic-CdSeS gradient nanocrystal composites by polymer confinement

Satapathy, P and Vasudeva, N and Oinam, J and Prasad, SK (2022) Enhanced luminescence, electric-field and actinic-light modulation of emission in nematic-CdSeS gradient nanocrystal composites by polymer confinement. In: Journal of Molecular Liquids, 347 .

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2021.118004

Abstract

We demonstrate that dispersing a small amount of CdSeS gradient quantum dots (QDs) in a nematic liquid crystal and geometrically confining the nanocomposite in a polymer network leads to their ordered linear assembly, as observed through electron microscopy. Such an orientational order not only enhances the base photoluminescence (PL), but brings in significant anisotropy in the emission magnitude, a feature barely seen for the system without the polymer network. A high frequency (�kHz) AC field adds the attractive dimension of on-demand and spatially addressable PL modulation. Using a photoisomerizable azobenzene derivative and a carefully selected excitation wavelength, it is shown that an actinic-light driven modulation of PL is also possible, which is furtherenhanced by the presence of the polymer network. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Journal of Molecular Liquids
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Additional Information: The copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier B.V.
Keywords: Anisotropy; Cadmium compounds; Electric fields; Light; Nanocrystals; Nematic liquid crystals; Selenium compounds, Actinic light; Anisotropic emission; Enhanced luminescence; Gradient controled quantum dot; Liner assembly; Nematics; Photodriven effect; Photoluminescence modulation; Polymer confinement; Polymer networks, Semiconductor quantum dots
Department/Centre: Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Centre for Nano Science and Engineering
Date Deposited: 18 Nov 2021 10:51
Last Modified: 11 Sep 2022 04:55
URI: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/70576

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