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The trapping dynamics of conduction-band electrons in colloidal degenerately doped n-CdSe nanocrystals prepared by photochemical reduction (photodoping) were measured by direct optical methods. The nanocrystals show spontaneous electron trapping with distributed kinetics that extend to remarkably long time scales. Shifts in nanocrystal band-edge potentials caused by quantum confinement and surface ion stoichiometry were also measured by spectroelectrochemical techniques, and their relationship to the slow electron trapping is discussed. The very long electron-trapping time scales observed in these measurements are more consistent with atomic rearrangement than with fundamental electron-transfer processes. Such slow and broadly distributed electron-trapping dynamics are reminiscent of the well-known distributed dynamics of nanocrystal photoluminescence blinking, and potential relationships between the two phenomena are discussed.
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Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü