Origin of luminescence quenching in structures containing CdSe/ZnSe quantum dots with a few Mn$^{2+}$ ions

Autor: Oreszczuk, Kacper, Goryca, Mateusz, Pacuski, Wojciech, Smoleński, Tomasz, Nawrocki, Michał, Kossacki, Piotr
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. B 96, 205436 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.205436
Popis: We present a detailed spectroscopic study of the photoluminescence quenching in an epitaxial structures containing CdSe/ZnSe quantum dots doped with low concentration of Mn$^{2+}$ ions. Our time-resolved and time-integrated experiments reveal the origin of the quenching observed in macro-photoluminescence studies of ensembles of such dots. We show that incorporation of even a few ions to an individual dot does not quench its luminescence effectively, although some fingerprints of expected spin-dependent quenching are visible. At the same time, the presence of Mn$^{2+}$ ions in the sample significantly affects the luminescence intensity of the wetting layer, resulting in a quenching of the global luminescence from studied structure. On the other hand, the luminescence decay dynamics is found to be independent of the presence of Mn$^{2+}$ ions, which suggests that the observed quenching occurs for the excited excitonic states.
Databáze: arXiv