Abstract

Photoluminescence (PL) thermal quenching of InP/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals of 4.2 (QD-1) and 4.6 (QD-2) nm in diameter is investigated in the temperature range of 6.5-296 K. Observed PL spectra are found to originate from exciton and defect-related transitions. Temperature behavior of the emission bands indicates effects of inhomogeneous broadening due to distributions of quantum dots parameters in the ensembles. PL thermal quenching analysis unveils two non-radiative relaxation channels for each band in both samples. Activation energies of 130 and 119 meV in QD-1 and QD-2, correspondingly, for the exciton band can be assigned to the bright-bright splitting of the exciton fine structure.

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Title
Non-radiative relaxation processes in luminescence of InP/ZnS quantum dots
Author
Savchenko, S S 1 ; Vokhmintsev, A S 1 ; Weinstein, I A 2 

 NANOTECH Centre, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira str., Ekaterinburg 620002, Russia 
 NANOTECH Centre, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira str., Ekaterinburg 620002, Russia; Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101 Amundsen str., Ekaterinburg 620016, Russia 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
May 2020
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2557281313
Copyright
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