Exciton spin dynamics of colloidal CdTe nanocrystals in magnetic field
| Autor: | Liu, Feng, Rodina, A. V., Yakovlev, D. R., Greilich, A., Golovatenko, A. A., Susha, A. S., Rogach, A. L., Kusrayev, Yu. G., Bayer, M. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. B 89, 115306 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.115306 |
| Popis: | The recombination and spin dynamics of excitons in colloidal CdTe nanocrystals (NCs) are studied by time-resolved photoluminescence in high magnetic fields up to 15 T and at cryogenic temperatures. The recombination decay shows a nonexponential temporal behavior, with the longest component corresponding to the dark excitons having 260 ns decay time at zero magnetic field and 4.2 K temperature. This long component shortens to 150 ns at 15 T due to the magnetic-field-induced mixing of the bright and dark exciton states. The spin dynamics, assessed through the evolution of the magnetic-field-induced circular polarization degree of the photoluminescence, has a fast component shorter than 1 ns related to the bright excitons and a slow component of 5-10 ns associated with the dark excitons. The latter shortens with increasing magnetic field, which is characteristic for a phonon-assisted spin relaxation mechanism. The relatively low saturation level of the associated magnetic-field-induced circular polarization degree of -30 % is explained by a model that suggests the CdTe NCs to constitute an ensemble of prolate and oblate NCs, both having a structural quantization axis. The exciton g-factor of 2.4-2.9 evaluated from fitting the experimental data in the frame of the suggested approach is in good agreement with the expected value for the dark excitons in CdTe NCs. Comment: 3 figures, 8 pages |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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