Femtosecond time-resolved electron-hole dynamics and radiative transitions in the double-layer quantum well of the CdS/(HgS)2/CdS quantum-dot–quantum-well nanoparticle

Markus Braun, Clemens Burda, Mona Mohamed, and Mostafa El-Sayed
Phys. Rev. B 64, 035317 – Published 25 June 2001
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Abstract

The femtosecond time-resolved exciton dynamics of the CdS/(HgS)2/CdS quantum-dot–quantum-well system (QDQW), which contains a double-layer HgS QW, was investigated and compared to the dynamics of the QDQW system with a single-layer HgS QW. The femtosecond hole-burning technique allowed us to resolve the energy of the different optically allowed excitonic states involved in the ultrafast relaxation pathway. The experimentally obtained exciton energies were in excellent agreement with the previously theoretically predicted values. The femtosecond time-resolved pump-probe measurements reveal a fast relaxation component of ∼5 ps at wavelengths ⩽700 nm. At longer wavelengths, a slow decay component is found, which increases in decay time with increasing wavelength. The fast decay component (5 ps) was attributed to an energy relaxation process of the two 1Pe1Ph exciton states, whereas the slow one was assigned to the decay of the dim 1Se1S3/2 state. The inhomogeneously broadened absorption band and the wide distribution of decay times in the low-energy region give strong evidence for a broad inhomogeneous energy distribution of the lowest energetic 1Se1S3/2 dim state. This is discussed in terms of the morphological structure of the quantum well.

  • Received 19 December 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.035317

©2001 American Physical Society

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Markus Braun, Clemens Burda, Mona Mohamed, and Mostafa El-Sayed*

  • School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, LDL, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332

  • *Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Vol. 64, Iss. 3 — 15 July 2001

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