Confinement effects on optical phonons in polar tetrapod nanocrystals detected by resonant inelastic light scattering.

Krahne, Roman; Chilla, Gerwin; Schüller, Christian; Carbone, Luigi; Kudera, Stefan; Mannarini, Gianandrea; Manna, Liberato; Heitmann, Detlef et al. · Nano Lett · 2006

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We investigated CdTe nanocrystal tetrapods of different sizes by resonant inelastic light scattering at room temperature and under cryogenic conditions. We observe a strongly resonant behavior of the phonon scattering with the excitonic structure of the tetrapods. Under resonant conditions we detect a set of phonon modes that can be understood as confined longitudinal-optical phonons, surface-optical phonons, and transverse-optical phonons in a nanowire picture.