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Copyright 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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this fast because of the high density of hole states that are in resonance withthe 1S e –1P e energy [36].Two experiments using intraband spectroscopy have tested andstrengthened this conclusion. In the first one, a photoexcited electron–holepair in the nanocrystals is separated <strong>by</strong> providing surface hole traps that allowthe degree of coupling of the electron and hole to be varied, according toFig. 6B [38]. After a sufficient time delay, infrared pump-probe spectroscopyof the 1S e –1P e transition directly measured the intraband recovery rate, asshown in Fig. 7. CdSe–TOPO nanocrystals showed dominant fast (f1 ps) andweak long (f300 ps) components of the recovery rate. The fast componentslowed down slightly to f2 ps when the surface was capped <strong>by</strong> hole traps suchas thiophenol or thiocresol and was much reduced in intensity for pyridinecappednanocrystals. The interpretation of the data was that pyridineprovides a hole trap that stabilizes the hole on the conjugated ring, stronglyreducing the coupling to the electron, at least for the nanocrystals thatescaped fast, nonradiative recombination. The slight reduction in the intrabandrecovery rate for the thiol-capped nanocrystals is consistent with thethiol group localizing the hole on the surface via the sulfur lone pairs. Theubiquitous slow component is plausible evidence for the phonon bottleneck,but alternative interpretations of the bleach recovery data are possible (e.g.,the slow component could be due to trapping from the 1P e state rather thanFigure 7 The recovery rate of the 1S e –1P e bleach after the intraband excitation ofthe photoexcited CdSe nanocrystals of 2.2-nm radius with different surface passivations(indicated in the figure). (From Ref. 38.)<strong>Copyright</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Marcel</strong> <strong>Dekker</strong>, <strong>Inc</strong>. <strong>All</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Reserved</strong>.

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