Multiple temperature regimes of radiative decay in CdSe nanocrystal quantum dots: Intrinsic limits to the dark-exciton lifetime
Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 2793 (2003); doi:10.1063/1.1570923
Issue Date: 28 April 2003
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We investigate the strongly temperature-dependent radiative lifetime of electronhole excitations in colloidal CdSe nanocrystal quantum dots over nearly three orders of magnitude in temperature (300 K to 380 mK). These studies reveal an intrinsic, radiative upper limit of ~1 µs for the storage of excitons below 2 K. At higher temperatures, exciton lifetimes are consistent with thermal activation from the dark-exciton ground state, but with two different activation thresholds. ©2003 American Institute of Physics.
| History: | Received 2 January 2003; accepted 5 March 2003 |
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KEYWORDS and PACS
cadmium compounds,
II-VI semiconductors,
semiconductor quantum dots,
radiative lifetimes,
photoluminescence,
excitons,
ground states
- 78.67.Hc
Optical properties of quantum dots - 78.55.Et
Photoluminescence in IIVI semiconductors - 73.21.La
Quantum dots (electron states/collective excitations) - 73.20.Mf
Collective excitations (surface/interface states) including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations - 73.22.Lp
Collective excitations (nanoscale materials) - 71.35.Lk
Exciton collective effects including Bose effects, phase space filling, and excitonic phase transitions - YEAR: 2003
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0003-6951 (print)
1077-3118 (online)
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