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

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electron charging. In both positive and negative bias, a doublet of peaks isobserved at the onset of the current. The doublet corresponds to charging ofthe first CB and VB states, respectively. This can be clearly discerned from therepresentation of P(n) versus bias shown (in gray scale) above the dI/dVcurves. The intradoublet spacing corresponds to the single-electron chargingenergy, E c , and the spacing between the first VB and CB peaks is nearly E g +E c , up to a small correction due to the voltage division. At higher positive bias(V B > 1 V), peaks arising from tunneling through the fourfold degenerateexcited CB state are seen. The first small peak corresponds to a situationwhere the most probable n is still 2, but the second electron tunnels throughthe excited state, rather than the ground state. The magnitude of this peak isreduced when the ratio R 1 /R 2 is decreased. The spacing between the secondand third peaks is the interlevel spacing modified slightly <strong>by</strong> voltage division.The following fourfold multiplet corresponds to sequential addition ofelectrons to the excited state, with intramultiplet spacing corresponding toE c . Similar behavior is observed in the negative bias side, with tunnelingthrough the VB states.A very different peak structure is seen for the opposite situation whereR 1 /R 2 = 50 (Fig. 3b). Here, charging effects are nearly suppressed; only a hintof the second peak in the doublets can be seen. The next large peak, at V Bf1 V corresponds to tunneling through the excited state, with the spacing to thefirst large peak equal to the interlevel separation. The most probable n isessentially zero [see the distribution P(n)], reflecting the situation that (atpositive bias) an electron that tunnels onto a CB state through J 1 rapidlyescapes through J 2 . Again, the negative bias side corresponds to similarbehavior for tunneling through the VB states.The cases where C 1 /C 2 = 0.5 are shown in Figs. 3c and 3d, with R 1 /R 2corresponding to the same ratios as in Figs. 3a and 3b, respectively. The abovediscussion holds also for both these cases, where charging effects can beclearly observed in Fig 3c, where R 1 /R 2 = 0.1, and are nearly suppressed inthe opposite case (Fig. 3d). However, the peak spacing becomes larger due tothe enhanced effect of voltage division [Eq. (1)].III.CORRELATION BETWEEN OPTICAL AND TUNNELINGSPECTRA OF InAs NANOCRYSTAL QDsThe first detailed investigation employing a combined optical-tunneling approachwas performed <strong>by</strong> us on InAs nanocrystal QDs [12]. InAs is an almostideal system for such a study. It belongs to the family of tetrahedral semiconductors,and colloidal techniques allow for the preparation of nanocrystalsthat are nearly spherically shaped, over a broad range of sizes with<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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