Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 2664-2670Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn102885p
Keywords
single-wall carbon nanotubes; excitons; fluorescence intermittency; spectral diffusion; power law
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- AFOSR [FA9550-08-1-013]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
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Blinking and spectral diffusion are hallmarks of nanoscale light emitters and a challenge for creating stable fluorescent biomarkers or efficient nonclassical light sources. Here, we demonstrate suppression of blinking and spectral. diffusion of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes by manipulation of their dielectric environment, resulting in 5-fold enhanced light emission. In addition, it was found that the characteristic slopes of the blinking power laws are largely independent of the dielectric environment In the limit of a large number of switching events. In contrast, the on/off ratio determined from statistical occurrence analysis is found to be improved by 3 orders of magnitude toward the on. state, making the on/off ratio an important measure for charge transfer from/into the local dielectric-environment of a quantum emitter. Furthermore, our approach is compatible with integration into cavities, in contrast to previous demonstrations of spectral diffusion suppression achieved in free-standing single-wall carbon nanotubes. This opens up possibilities to couple the exciton emission of nonblinking carbon nanotubes to cavity modes to further benefit by the Purcell effect, and to,enhance the light extraction efficiency, in order to ultimately demonstrate efficient photonic devices.
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