We show that a relatively simple approach for controlling the colloidal synthesis of anisotropic cadmium selenide semiconductor nanorods can be extended to the size-controlled preparation of magnetic cobalt nanorods as well as spherically shaped nanocrystals. This approach helps define a minimum feature set needed to separately control the sizes and shapes of nanocrystals. The resulting cobalt ...

Localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) typically arise in nanostructures of noble metals resulting in enhanced and geometrically tunable absorption and scattering resonances. LSPRs, however, are not limited to nanostructures of metals and can also be achieved in semiconductor nanocrystals with appreciable free carrier concentrations. Here, we describe well-defined LSPRs arising from p-typ...

In this study, ternary alloyed ZnxCd1-xSe (x=0, 0.2, 0.5, 0.8 and 1) semiconductor nanocrystals with high quality are synthesized by a high temperature decomposition route. The effect of Zn content (x) of ZnxCd1-xSe semiconductor nanocrystals on their physical properties is investigated by controlling the Zn/Cd ratios. The optical properties and morphologies of the prepared nanocrystals are mea...

Colloidal core/shell nanocrystals contain at least two semiconductor materials in an onionlike structure. The possibility to tune the basic optical properties of the core nanocrystals, for example, their fluorescence wavelength, quantum yield, and lifetime, by growing an epitaxial-type shell of another semiconductor has fueled significant progress on the chemical synthesis of these systems. In ...

Semiconductors with dimensions in the nanometer realm are important because their electrical, optical and chemical properties can be tuned by changing the size of the particles. These nanostructures have attracted much interest due to their fundamental importance in bridging the gap between bulk matter and molecular species [199, 200]. Optical properties of nanoparticles are of great interest f...

During the past decades, nanomaterials such as noblemetal, lanthanide-doped, magnetic, luminescent SiO2, [9,10] and semiconductor nanomaterials have been extensively investigated and used in the development of sensitive and selective detection and imaging in biological and medical fields. Owing to their novel optical properties, semiconductor nanocrystals are of great interest to many fields su...

Cadmium selenide nanorods, unique nanostructures which possess bright and up to 100% polarized photoluminescence, now can be arranged unidirectionally in a single line. The method is based on the chemical attachment of nanorods to the surface of a single cleaved semiconductor nanolayer and exploits a combination of wet-chemical and epitaxial growth techniques to produce templated semiconductor ...

Photothermal heterodyne detection is used to record the first room-temperature absorption spectra of single CdSe/ZnS semiconductor nanocrystals. These spectra are recorded in the high cw excitation regime, and the observed bands are assigned to transitions involving biexciton and trion states. Comparison with the single nanocrystals photoluminescence spectra leads to the measurement of spectral...

The influence of particle shape on plasmonic response and local electric field strength is well-documented in metallic nanoparticles. Morphologies such as rods, plates, and octahedra are readily synthesized and exhibit drastically different extinction spectra than spherical particles. Despite this fact, the influence of composition and shape on the optical properties of plasmonic semiconductor ...