Hot electrons, far above the lattice temperature of a material, present opportunities for enhanced solar energy harvesting or performance of otherwise unfavorable chemistry. The spectroscopic signatures and dynamics of hot carrier absorption and emission have been extensively studied in bulk and nanoscopic semiconductors, but the effects on intraband transitions are largely unexplored. Here, the effect of hot electrons on the properties of colloidal quantum wells made of cadmium selenide is examined using ultrafast spectroscopy. Similar to expitaxial quantum wells, these atomically precise materials support intersubband transitions (a class of intraband transitions in 1D and 2D materials) in the near-infrared spectral window. Using energy-dependent photoexcitation, it is shown that electrons reach effective temperatures of 2000 K or greater. This results in a substantial transient shift in the oscillator strength of the instersubband transition to lower energies on a sub-picosecond time-scale. Similar heating of electrons is achieved under mid-infrared re-excitation, which permits ultrafast transmittance modulation throughout the near-infrared.
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