Michigan State University The McGuire Group
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Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optical Studies of Reduced Dimensional and Quantum Confined Systems
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PUBLICATIONS (in reverse chronological order)

13.      J.A. McGuire*, M. Sykora*, I. Robel, L.A. Padilha, J. Joo, J.M. Pietryga, and V.I. Klimov, “Spectroscopic Signatures of Photocharging due to Hot-Carrier Transfer in Solutions of Semiconductor Nanocrystals under Low-Intensity Ultraviolet Excitation,” ACS Nano, 4, 6087 (2010). (*equal contributors)

12.      M. Mueller, X. Yan, J.A. McGuire, L.S. Li, “Triplet States and Electronic Relaxation in Photo-Excited Graphene Quantum Dots,” Nano Lett., 10, 2679 (2010).

 11.      J.A. McGuire*, M. Sykora*, J. Joo, J.M. Pietryga, and V.I. Klimov, “Apparent versus True Carrier Multiplication Yields in Semiconductor Nanocrystals,” Nano Lett., 10, 2049 (2010). (*equal contributors)

 10.      M. Sykora, A. Koposov, J.A. McGuire, O. Tretyak, J.M. Pietryga, R. Schulze, and V.I. Klimov, “Effect of Air Exposure on Surface Properties, Electronic Structure, and Carrier Relaxation in PbSe Nanocrystals,” ACS Nano, 4, 2021 (2010).

9.      J. Joo, J.M. Pietryga, J.A. McGuire, S.H. Jeon, D.J. Williams, H.-L. Wang, and V.I. Klimov, “A Reduction Pathway in the Synthesis of PbSe Nanocrystal Quantum Dots,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131, 10620 (2009).

8.   J.A. McGuire, J. Joo, J.M. Pietryga, R.D. Schaller, and V.I. Klimov, “New Aspects of Carrier Multiplication in Semiconductor Nanocrystals,” Accounts of Chemical Research 41, 1810 (2008).

7.   V.I. Klimov, J.A. McGuire, R.D. Schaller, and V. Rupasov, “Scaling of Multiexciton Lifetimes in Semiconductor Nanocrystals,” Physical Review B 77, 195324 (2008).

6.      V.I. Klimov, S.A. Ivanov, J. Nanda, M. Achermann, I. Bezel, J.A. McGuire, and A. Piryatinski, “Single-Exciton Optical Gain in Semiconductor Nanocrystals,”  Nature 447, 441 (2007).

News: “Less excitement for more gain”, Nature 447, 385 (2007).

           “Engineering the energy levels in quantum dots leads to optical gain,” Physics Today, 60, 19 (2007).

5.   Z.C. Zhao, H. Wang, Y.X. Xia, J.A. McGuire, Y. Ren, Q.Y. Jin, and T.R. Gao, “Anomalous Hysteresis Loops Measured by the Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in a Co/NiO/Cu/Co/Cu Structure,” Journal of Applied Physics 101, 016105 (2007).

4.   J.A. McGuire and Y.R. Shen, “Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics at Water Interfaces,” Science 313, 1945 (2006).

3.   J.A. McGuire, M.B. Raschke, and Y.R. Shen, “Electron Dynamics of Silicon Surface States: Second-Harmonic Hole Burning on Si(111)-(7x7),” Physical Review Letters 96, 087401 (2006).

2.  J.A. McGuire and Y.R. Shen, “Signal and Noise in Fourier-Transform Sum-Frequency Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy with Femtosecond Lasers,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B 23, 363 (2006).

1.   J.A. McGuire, W. Beck, X. Wei, and Y.R. Shen, “Fourier-Transform Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy with Femtosecond Pulses,” Optics Letters 24, 1877 (1999).