Light-Induced Paramagnetism in Colloidal Ag+-Doped CdSe Nanoplatelets


Najafi A., Sharma M., Delikanli S., Bhattacharya A., Murphy J. R., Pientka J., ...More

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, vol.12, no.11, pp.2892-2899, 2021 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 12 Issue: 11
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00398
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Chemical Abstracts Core, Compendex, EMBASE, MEDLINE
  • Page Numbers: pp.2892-2899
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

We describe a study of the magneto-optical properties of Ag+-doped CdSe colloidal nanoplatelets (NPLs) that were grown using a novel doping technique. In this work, we used magnetic circularly polarized luminescence and magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy to study light-induced magnetism for the first time in 2D solution-processed structures doped with nominally nonmagnetic Ag+ impurities. The excitonic circular polarization (P-X) and the exciton Zeeman splitting (Delta E-Z) were recorded as a function of the magnetic field (B) and temperature (T). Both Delta E-Z and P-X have a Brillouin-function-like dependence on B and T, verifying the presence of paramagnetism in Ag+-doped CdSe NPLs. The observed light-induced magnetism is attributed to the transformation of nonmagnetic Ag+ ions into Ag2+, which have a nonzero magnetic moment. This work points to the possibility of incorporating these nanoplatelets into spintronic devices, in which light can be used to control the spin injection.