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integrating sphere allows accurate luminescence efficiencies to be calculated,provided that the efficiency is more than about 1%. The integrating sphere isalso used without the sample present to measure the incident laser power.With the sample present, use of filters or spectrographic detection enablesluminescence and nonabsorbed laser light to be distinguished, which can beused to calculate the fraction of laser power absorbed <strong>by</strong> the sample, as describedin Refs. 28 and 29.Transient absorption provides a powerful tool to study charge transferprocesses on fast timescales. Typically, the sample is excited with a laser pulseof f100 fs duration and is then probed with a pulse of white light after avariable delay of up to several nanoseconds. The probe beam can be used tomeasure the concentration of neutral and charged species because they introducenew subgap absorptions (from excitons and charged states), stimulatedemission (from excitons), and bleaching (due to depletion of the ground statewhen excited states are present). By varying the delay between pump andprobe, the populations of these various species can be studied as a function oftime. Several reviews of femotsecond pump-probe techniques are available[30–32].We find that charged states formed after charge transfer to nanocrystalsoften have lifetimes in the microsecond to millisecond range [27]. The populationand decay of these states can be studied without the need for pulsedlasers. In the quasi-steady-state technique often known as photoinducedabsorption, the sample is excited <strong>by</strong> a continuous-wave (CW) laser beammodulated with a mechanical chopper at frequencies up to a few kilohertz.Absorption is measured at energies between 0.5 and 3 eV using monochromatedlight from a tungsten lamp together with an appropriate detector, asshown in Fig. 4. A lock-in amplifier is used to measure the small change inabsorption at the chopping frequency, allowing fractional changes in transmissionas low as 10 6 to be measured. The lock-in amplifier measures theFigure 4Experimental arrangement for measurement of photoinduced absorption.<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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