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Improved Superresolution Imaging Using Telegraph Noise in Organic Semiconductor Nanoparticles

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NANO LETTERS
卷 17, 期 6, 页码 3896-3901

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01440

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Superresolution imaging; 1 nm resolution; conjugated polymer nanoparticles; hole polaron

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  1. NSF [CHE-1412694]
  2. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  3. Division Of Chemistry [1412694] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Small semiconductor structures often exhibit telegraph noise. If the number of charge carriers is small, then spontaneous changes in the number of carriers can lead to abrupt switching between two or more discrete, levels, leading to burst noise or popcorn noise in transistors. We have observed similar behavior in the fluorescence of organic semiconductor nanoparticles, where typical carrier populations are often less that similar to 10 carriers per nanoparticle. Spontaneous changes in the number of charges results in abrupt switching between 2 or more fluorescence intensity levels, because the charges act as highly efficient fluorescence quenchers. The equilibrium number of charges is determined by competition between a photodriven ionization process and spontaneous recombination. Doping with redox-active molecules also affects the balance. Nanoparticles of the conjugated polymer PFBT doped with the fullerene derivative PCBM, rapidly establish a fluctuating steady-state population of tens of hole polaron charge carriers, sufficient to nearly completely Suppress nanoparticle fluorescence. However, fluctuations in the number of charges lead to occasional bursts of fluorescence. This spontaneous photoswitching phenomenon can be exploited for superresolution imaging. The repeated, spontaneous generation of short, intense bursts of fluorescence photons results in a localization precision of similar to 0.6 nm, about 4 times better than typical resolution obtained by localization of dye molecules.

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