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Characterizing Quantum-Dot Blinking Using Noise Power Spectra

Matthew Pelton, David Grier, Philippe Guyot-Sionnest

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0404589

Abstract

Fluctuations in the fluorescence from macroscopic ensembles of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots have the spectral form of 1/f noise. The measured power spectral density reflects the fluorescence intermittency of individual dots with power-law distributions of "on" and "off" times, and can thus serve as a simple method for characterizing such blinking behavior.

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