Activation energy and carriers dynamics of multilayer CdTe/ZnTe quantum dots with different ZnTe separation layer thicknesses

  • Sung Hwan Jin
  • , Su Hwan Kim
  • , Sang Youp Yim
  • , Jin Chul Choi
  • , Hong Seok Lee*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We studied the optical properties of multilayer CdTe/ZnTe quantum dots (QDs) with various ZnTe separation layer thicknesses on GaAs substrates. The low temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectra show that the excitonic peaks in multilayer CdTe/ZnTe QDs shift to higher energy levels, and PL peak intensities increase with increasing ZnTe separation layer thickness. This is because of increasing uncoupling and because there are many more carriers confined in the QDs with wider separation layers. Temperature-dependent PL measurements showed that the activation energies of the confined electrons in the multilayer CdTe/ZnTe QDs decreases with decreasing ZnTe separation layer thickness. The time-resolved PL spectra show increasing carrier decay times with decreasing ZnTe separation layer thickness, due to increasing coupling between QDs with narrower separation layers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)218-221
Number of pages4
JournalMaterials Research Bulletin
Volume96
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017.12

Keywords

  • Activation energy
  • Cadmium telluride
  • Carriers dynamics
  • Multilayer quantum dots

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering - Mechanical
  • Physics & Astronomy

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