We present a detailed study on the effects of oxygen on the photoluminescence properties of CdSe/CdS quantum dots (QDs). We investigated the role of oxygen by performing confocal measurements on thin films as well as on single particles while rapidly exchanging the gaseous environment between oxygen and an inert gas atmosphere. We found that the deionization of negatively charged particles by oxygen depends on both the excitation power and the shell thickness of the QDs. For QDs with thin shells, which exhibit strong photoluminescence blinking, we observed that the presence of oxygen affects both band-edge carrier blinking and hot-carrier blinking.
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