CdTe Nanocrystals: Dynamic Effect of Solvation on the Optical Properties of a CdTe Nanocrystal (Advanced Optical Materials 3/2013)

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to establish a correlation between the time evolution of spectral features with various structural components of a ligand-stabilized CdTe quantum dot. The localization of charge oscillations due to light absorption is investigated by O. B. Malci{dotless}oǧlu et al. on page 239 before and after embedding the quantum dot in an explicit solvent environment. The image shows a snapshot from the solvated molecular dynamics trajectory. The response charge density of a quantum dot to two different frequencies of irradiation is depicted as colored glass bubbles. © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.