Center for Excitonics

Publications, 2011 - MIT-Harvard Center for Excitonics

2011

Publications

  1. Wood, V., Panzer, M. J., Bozyigit, D., Shirasaki, Y., Rousseau, I., Gyere, S., Bawendi, M. G., Bulovic, V., Electroluminescence from Nanoscale Materials vis Field-driven Ionization, Nano Lett., 2011, 11 (7), pp 2927–2932, DOI: 10.1021/nl2013983
  2. Dorn A, Strasfeld DB, Harris DK, Han H-S, and Bawendi MG. Using Nanowires To Extract Excitons from a Nanocrystal Solid. ACS Nano 2011, 5: 9028–9033.
  3. Natalia B. Shustova, Brian D. McCarthy, and Mircea Dincă, “Turn-On Fluorescence in Tetraphenylethylene-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks: An Alternative to Aggregation-Induced Emission.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133 (50), pp 20126–20129, DOI: 10.1021/ja209327q, 2011
  4. Jeremy Moix, Jianlan Wu, Pengfei Huo, David Coker, Jianshu Cao, “Efficient energy transfer in light-harvesting systems III: the influence of eighth bacteriacholoryphyll on the dynamics and efficiency of FMO,” J. Phys. Chem. Letts. 2, 3045 (2011)
  5. Chee Kong Lee, Leong Chuan Kwek, and Jianshu Cao, “Stochastic resonance of quantum discord,” Physical Review A, 84, 062112 (2011)
  6. T. Ellenbogen, P. Steinvurzel and K. B. Crozier, “Strong Coupling Between Excitons in J-aggregates and Waveguide Modes in Thin Polymer Films”, Applied Physics Letters 98, 261103 (2011) DOI: 10.1063/1.3604014.
  7. Wang, Kai; Schonbrun, Ethan; Steinvurzel, Paul; and Crozier, K. B. “Trapping and rotating nanoparticles using a plasmonic nano-tweezer with an integrated heat sink,” Nat. Commun., 2, 469 (2011), doi:10.1038/ncomms1480.
  8. T. Ellenbogen and K. B. Crozier, “Exciton-Polariton Emission from Organic Semiconductor Optical Waveguides,” Phys. Rev. B 84 161304(R) (2011), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.161304.
  9. H. Yamagata, J. Norton, E. Hontz, Y. Olivier, D. Beljonne, J. L. Brédas, R. J. Silbey, and F. C. Spano, “The nature of singlet excitons in oligoacene molecular crystals,” J. Chem Phys 134, 204703 (2011). DOI: 10.1063/1.3590871.
  10. Xin Chen and R. J. Silbey, “Excitation Transfer in a Non-Markovian Dynamically Disordered Environment: Localization, Narrowing and Transfer Efficiency,” J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 5499-5509 (2011), DOI: 10.1021/jp111068w
  11. Packard, C E; Aidala, K E; Ramanan, S; and Bulovic, Vladimir, “Patterned Removal of Molecular Organic Films by Diffusion,” Langmuir, 27 (15) , 9073–9076 (2011), DOI:10.1021/la2016929.
  12. C. Rotschild, M. Tomes, H. Mendoza, T. L. Andrew, T. M. Swager, T. Carmon, and M.A. Baldo, “Cascaded Energy Transfer for Efficient Broad-Band Pumping of High-Quality, Micro-Lasers” Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 3057–3060, doi/10.1002/adma.201100467.
  13. J. Yuen-Zhou, J.J. Krich, M. Mohseni and A. Aspuru-Guzik, “Quantum state and process tomography of energy transfer systems via ultrafast spectroscopy,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 43, 17615-17620 (2011). Selected for the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, doi: 10.1073/pnas.111064210.8.
  14. J. Yuen-Zhou and A. Aspuru-Guzik, “Quantum process tomography of excitonic dimers from two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. I. General theory and application to homodimers,” J. Chem. Phys. 134, 134505 (2011),doi.org/10.1063/1.3569694.
  15. P. Rebentrost and A. Aspuru-Guzik, “Communication: Exciton-phonon information flow in the energy transfer process of photosynthetic complexes,” J. Chem. Phys. 134, 101103 (2011), doi:10.1063/1.3563617.
  16. J. Zhu, S. Kais, P. Rebentrost and A. Aspuru-Guzik, “Modified Scaled Hierarchical Equation of Motion Approach for the Study of Quantum Coherence in Photosynthetic Complexes,” J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 1531-1537 (2011), DOI: 10.1021/jp109559p.
  17. C.A. Rodriguez-Rosario, G. Kimura, H. Imai and A. Aspuru-Guzik, “Sufficient and Necessary Condition for Zero Quantum Entropy Rates under any Coupling to the Environment,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 050403 (2011). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.050403.
  18. Jadhav, P.J., A. Mohanty, J. Sussman, and M.A. Baldo, “Singlet Exciton Fission in Nanostructured Organic Solar Cells,”  Nano Lett., 2011, 11 (4), pp 1495–1498, DOI: 10.1021/nl104202j.
  19. Liu, S.; Müller, P. Takase, M. K.; Swager, T. M. “Click” Synthesis of Heteroleptic Tris-cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes: Cu(I) Triazolide Intermediates as Transmetalating Reagents” Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50, (16) 7598–7609, DOI: 10.1021/ic2005985.
  20. G. Nair, L.-Y. Chang, S. M. Geyer, and M. G. Bawendi, “Perspective on the prospects of a carrier multiplication nanocrystal solar cell,” Nano Lett., 2011, 11 (5), pp 2145–2151, DOI: 10.1021/nl200798x
  21. F. Marsili, F. Najafi, E. Dauler, F. Bellei, X. Hu, R. Molnar and K. K. Berggren, “Single-photon detectors based on ultra-narrow superconducting nanowires,” Nano Lett., 2011, 11 (5), pp 2048–2053, DOI: 10.1021/nl2005143.
  22. F. Marsili, F. Najafi, C. Herder and K. K. Berggren, “Electro-thermal simulation of superconducting nanowire avalanche photodetectors”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 98, 093507 (2011). Selected for March 14, 2011 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, and for March 15, 2011 issue of Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity.
  23. Xiaolong Hu, Eric A. Dauler, Richard J. Molnar, and Karl K. Berggren, “Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors integrated with optical nano-antennae,” Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 17-31 (2011), doi: 10.1364/OE.19.000017.
  24. Richard R. Lunt and Vladimir Bulović, “Transparent, near-infrared organic photovoltaic solar cells for window and energy-scavenging applications,” Applied Physics Letters 98, 113305 (2011), DOI 10.1063/1.3567516.
  25. Kwanyong Seo, Munib Wober, Paul Steinvurzel, Ethan Schonbrun, Yaping Dan, Tal Ellenbogen, and Kenneth B. Crozier, “Multicolored Vertical Silicon Nanowires,” Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 1851–1856, dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl200201b.
  26. Ethan Schonbrun, Paul E. Steinvurzel, and Kenneth B. Crozier, “A microfluidic fluorescence measurement system using an astigmatic diffractive microlens array,” Optics Express vol. 19, 1385 (2011), DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001385.
  27. M. Brewster, X. Zhou, S. K. Lim, and S. Gradečak, “Role of Au in the growth and nanoscale optical properties of ZnO nanowires,” Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2, 586-591 (2011), dx.doi.org/10.1021/jz200129x.
  28. Gautham Nair, Jing Zhao, Moungi G. Bawendi. Biexciton quantum yield of single semiconductor nanocrystals from photon statistics,
    Nano Lett., 2011, 11 (3), pp 1136–1140, DOI: 10.1021/nl104054t.
  29. R. Silbey, “Description of quantum effects in the condensed phase,” 22nd Solvay Conference on Chemistry, Procedia Chemistry Volume 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 188–197, [DOI: 10.1016/j.proche.2011.08.26].

Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts

  1. Ellenbogen, K. Seo and K. B. Crozier, “Conversion of Polarization State to Visible Color by Anisotropic Plasmonic Cross Antenna Arrays,” FMI4, FiO, San Jose 2011.
  2. T. Ellenbogen; P. Steinvurzel and K. B. Crozier, “Strong Coupling between Excitons in J aggregates and Waveguide Modes in Thin Polymer Films,” paper ID QTuL7, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2011, May 3, 2011, Baltimore, MD
  3. K. Wang, E. Schonbrun, P. Steinvurzel, and K. B. Crozier, “Nanoparticle manipulation using a plasmonic nano-tweezer with an integrated heat sink,” paper ID QWG2, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2011, May 4, 2011, Baltimore, MD.
  4. Shirasaki, Y., Wood, V., Tischler, Y. R., Supran, G. J., Bulovic, V., Resonant cavity colloidal quantum dot LEDs, 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (2011).
  5. K. Wang, E. Schonbrun, P. Steinvurzel, and K. B. Crozier, “Nanoparticle manipulation using a plasmonic nano-tweezer with an integrated heat sink,”, paper ID QWG2, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2011, May 4, 2011, Baltimore, MD.
  6. K. Berggren; V. Anant; B. Baek; E. Dauler; X. Hu; A. Kerman; F. Marsili; R. P. Mirin; R. Molnar; S. Nam; F. Najafi; M. Stevens; F. Wong; T. Zhong, “Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2011), Baltimore, MD, USA: 2011

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. P. Tyagi, P. Wen, J. Saari, D.H. Arias, K.A. Nelson, and P. Kambhampati, “Probing multiexcitons in quantum dots via femtosecond pump/probe and two-dimensional electronic  spectroscopy,” in Ultrafast Phenomena XVII, M. Chergui, D.M. Jonas, E. Riedle, R.W. Schoenlein, and A.J. Taylor, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 263-265,
  2. D.H. Arias, K.W. Stone, V. Bulovic, and K.A. Nelson, “Multi-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of J-aggregates,” in Ultrafast Phenomena XVII, M. Chergui, D.M. Jonas, E. Riedle, R.W. Schoenlein, and A.J. Taylor, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 388-390.  Multi-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of J-Aggregates, Conference Paper · International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena 201, Snowmass Village, Colorado United States, 18–23 July 2010 ,ISBN: 978-1-55752-894-0

Presentations

  1. ”III-V Nanowires for Energy Applications,” Silvija Gradecak, Workshop On Frontiers in Electronics, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2011.
  2. “The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Physical Chemistry Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, 1 December 2011.
  3. “Transparent solar cell technology developed within the EFRC,” Vladimir Bulovic, Munich, Germany, November 2011.
  4. “The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Student Invited Lecture Series, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 30 November 2011.
  5. “Efficiency limits of hybrid QD LED technologies,” Geoffrey Supran’s EFRC work showed that electric fields within the QD LEDs can deleteriously affect the radiative relaxation of QD excitons, MRS Conference, Boston, MA, November 2011.
  6. “The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Physical Chemistry Seminar, University of California, San Diego, CA, 22 November 2011.
  7. “On the role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Physical Chemistry Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 15 November 2011.
  8. “The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Physical Chemistry Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 9 November 2011.
  9. “The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, James Franck Institute Colloquium, University of Chicago, 25 October 2011.
  10. “The nano-optics of plasmonic optical tweezers, SERS substrates, and multi-colored silicon nanowires,” Ken Crozier, University of California at Berkeley. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Invited Talk, October 21th, 2011.
  11. “The nano-optics of plasmonic optical tweezers, SERS substrates, and multi-colored silicon nanowires,” Ken Crozier, Frontiers in Optics Conference, Oct. 20, 2011.
  12. “On the Role of Quantum Coherence in Excitonic Energy Transfer: New Theoretical, Computational and Spectroscopy Approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Chemistry Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 20 October 2011.
  13. “The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Physical Chemistry Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 18 October 2011.
  14. “The role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Physical Chemistry Seminar, Stanford University Department of Chemistry, 12 October 2011.
  15. “The role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Chemical Physics Seminar, California Institute of Technology Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 11 October 2011.
  16. “The nano-optics of plasmonic optical tweezers, SERS substrates, and multi-colored silicon nanowires,” Ken Crozier, Department of Physics and Astronomy, St Andrews University, Scotland, Oct, 7, 2011.
  17. “The nano-optics of plasmonic optical tweezers, SERS substrates, and multi-colored silicon nanowires,” Ken Crozier, Cambridge University, England. Invited Talk, Oct 6, 2011.
  18. “The nano-optics of plasmonic optical tweezers, SERS substrates, and multi-colored silicon nanowires,” Ken Crozier, Imperial College London, England. Invited Talk, Oct 5, 2011.
  19. “The nano-optics of plasmonic optical tweezers, SERS substrates, and multi-colored silicon nanowires,” Ken Crozier, The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Spain. Invited Talk, Oct 4, 2011.
  20. “Controlled growth of III-V nanowires for energy applications,” Silvija Gradecak, 220th ECS Meeting, Boston, MA, October 2011.
  21. “Exciton dynamics in quantum-dot structures pursued within the EFRC program,” Vladimir Bulović, Austin, Tx, October 2011.
  22. “The role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Quantum Science Symposium, Cambridge MA, 26 September 2011.
  23. “The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Chemistry Seminar, University of Texas – El Paso Department of Chemistry, El Paso TX, 23 September 2011.
  24. “The Role of Quantum Coherence in Photosynthetic Energy Transfer,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM, 22 September 2011.
  25. F. Marsili, F. Najafi, E. Dauler, F. Bellei, M. Csete, X. Hu, R. Molnar, K. K. Berggren, “Single-Photon Detection with Ultranarrow Superconducting Nanowire”?s” International Workshop on Nanowire Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors, Eindhoven, the Netherlands: – Sep 2011
  26. “Semiconductor nanowires for energy applications,” Silvija Gradecak, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, September 2011.
  27. “The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Center for Optics Retreat, University of Oregon, Eugene, Glenden Beach, OR, 16 September 2011.
  28. “The nano-optics of plasmonic optical tweezers, SERS substrates, and multi-colored silicon nanowires,” Ken Crozier, Duke University’s Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics (CMIP). Invited talk, Durham, NC, Sep 13, 2011.
  29. “The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Physical Chemistry Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison Department of Chemistry, Madison, WI, 13 September 2011.
  30. ” The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Physical Chemistry Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 12 September 2011.
  31. “Coherent Spectroscopy and Coherent Control of Complex Materials,” Keith A. Nelson, Conference: Multifunctional Materials Workshop, Kodiak, Alaska, Aug 1, 2011.
  32. “III-V nanowires and nanowire heterostructures: controlling the growth and nanoscale properties,” Silvija Gradecak, SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, CA, August 2011.
  33. K. A. Nelson, “Coherent spectroscopy and coherent control through spatiotemporal femtosecond pulse shaping,” Nonlinear Optics 2011, Kauai, Hawaii, July 17-22, 2011.
  34. “The role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer,” Excited states and non-adiabatic processes in complex systems: Theoretical approaches, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Girona, Spain, 26 July 2011.
  35. Unraveling coherent exciton dynamics in chromophore arrays by means of ultrafast quantum process tomography and quantum master equations based on atomistic simulations,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Telluride Science Research Center Workshop: Spontaneous Coherence and Collective Dynamics, Telluride, CO, 5 July 2011.
  36. “Multiple-Quantum Coherent Spectroscopy and Coherent Control,” Keith A. Nelson, Conference: Telluride Science Research Center Workshop on Spontaneous Coherence and Collective Dynamics, Telluride, CO, 5 July 2011.
  37. “Unraveling the quantum dynamics of energy transfer in molecular aggregates via quantum process tomography of ultrafast experiments,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, CECAM Workshop: Spectroscopy and Quantum Phenomena in Large Molecular Aggregates, Bremen, Germany, 30 June 2011.
  38. “Multiple-Quantum Coherent Spectroscopy and Coherent Control,” Keith A. Nelson, Conference: Photo-Induced Phase Transitions, Jun 29, 2011, Wroclaw, Poland.
  39. “Understanding the role of coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer: atomistic energy transfer simulations, and design of novel ultrafast experiments,”Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Excited State Processes in Electronic and Bio Nanomaterials, Santa Fe NM, 22 June 2011
  40. “Multiple-Quantum Coherent Optical Spectroscopy,” Keith A. Nelson, Canadian Society for Chemistry Meeting, Montreal, Canada, Jun 9, 2011.
  41. K. A. Nelson, “Fully coherent multidimensional spectroscopy of multiexciton correlations,” Canadian Chemical Congress, Montreal, June 9, 2011.
  42. “Controlled growth and doping of III-V nanowires,” Silvija Gradecak, NANOWIRES 2011, Lesvos, Greece, June 2011.
  43. “Semiconductor nanowires for energy applications,” Silvija Gradecak, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Singapore, June 2011.
  44. “Nanowire based photonics and electronics,” Silvija Gradecak, Laser Seminar, ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland. May 2011.
  45. “Frontiers of nanotechnology: semiconductor nanowires,” Silvija Gradecak, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. May 2011.
  46. Baldo, M.A., “Singlet exciton fission,” Materials Research Society, Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2011.
  47. K. K. Berggren, “Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors,” Herriot-Watt University, Edinburg, UK, April 2011.
  48. “Controlling the structure and properties of semiconductor nanowires: from growth to applications,” Gradecak, S., Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, April 2011.
  49. Aspuru-Guzik, “Probing, simulating and understanding coherence in large molecular systems,” City University of New York Graduate Center Symposium on “The Efficiency of Photosynthesis,” New York City NY, 7 April 2011.
  50. Bawend, M., “Quantum Magic in Nanocrystals” General audience talk during Nanodays at the Boston Museum of Science on March 26, 2011.
  51. Aspuru-Guzik, “The role of quantum coherence in excitonic energy transfer: quantum process tomography, molecular dynamics and efficiency measures,” American Physical Society March Meeting, Dallas TX, 22 March 2011.
  52. Rodriguez-Rosario and A. Aspuru-Guzik, “System-Environment Correlations in Quantum Thermodynamics,” Naval Research Lab, Washington DC, March 2011.
  53. Rodriguez-Rosario and A. Aspuru-Guzik, “Quantum coherence in exciton transport,” Naval Research Lab, Washington DC, March 2011.
  54. Apuru-Guzik, “The role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Physics Colloquium, Madison WI, 21 January 2011.
  55. K. K. Berggren, “Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors,” University of Eindhoven, Netherlands, – Jan 2011.