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

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Figure 4 (a) Absorption (solid line) and full luminescence (dashed line) spectrafor f1.9-nm effective radius CdSe nanocrystals. (b) FLN and PLE spectra for thesame sample. A longitudinal optical phonon progression is observed in FLN. Bothnarrow (a, aV) and broad (h) absorption features are resolved in PLE. Thedownward (upward) arrows denote the excitation (emission) position used for FLN(PLE). (Adapted from Ref. 11.)spectral range than Fig. 4 and show more of the spectrum. To determine howthe electronic structure evolves with quantum-dot size, PLE data can beobtained for a large series of samples. Seven such spectra are shown in Fig. 6.The nanocrystals are arranged (top to bottom) in order of increasing radiusfrom f1.5 to f4.3 nm. Quantum confinement clearly shifts the transitions tohigher energy (>0.5 eV) with decreasing size. The quality of these quantumdots also allows as many as eight absorption features to be resolved in a singlespectrum.By extracting peak positions from PLE data such as Fig. 6, the quantumdotspectrum as a function of size is obtained. Figure 7 plots the result for alarge dataset from CdSe nanocrystals. Although nanocrystal radius (ordiameter) is not used as the x axis, Fig. 7 still represents a size-dependent<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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