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Particle in a “box” : Quantum Dots Quantum dots, or fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals, are revolutionizing biological imaging. The color of light emitted by a semiconductor material is determined by the width of the energy gap separating the conduction and valence energy bands. In bulk semiconductors, this gap width is fixed by the identity (i.e. composition) of the material. For example, the band gap energy of bulk CdSe is 1.77 eV at 300 K. Recall that a photon obeys E h hc / for the relationship between the energy gap and the frequency or wavelength If you want a different wavelength of light to be emitted, you need to find a different material. However, the situation changes in the case of nanoscale semiconductor particles with sizes smaller than 10 nm. This size range corresponds to the regime of quantum confinement, for which the spatial extent of the electronic wavefunction is comparable with the dot size. As a result of these geometrical constraints, electrons respond to changes in particle size by adjusting their energy. This phenomenon is called the quantum size effect. The quantum size effect can be approximately described by the “particle in a box” model. How good is this approximation? Good – see Weber, Phys. Rev. B, 66 041305 (2002). For a spherical quantum dot with radius R, this model predicts a size-dependent contribution to the energy gap proportional to 1/R2. Hence the gap increases as the quantum dot size decreases.
