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Bulletin of Materials Science, 1999
Research in semiconductor quantum dots (q-dots) has burgeoned in the past decade. The size (R) of... more Research in semiconductor quantum dots (q-dots) has burgeoned in the past decade. The size (R) of these q-dots ranges from 1 to 100 nm. Based on the theoretical calculations, we propose energy and length scales which help in clarifying the physics of this mcsoscopic system. Some of these length scales are: the Bohr exciton radius (a*), the carrier de Broglie and diffusion length (~'D and ID) , the polaron radius (ap), and the reduction factor modulating the optical matrix element (M). R <a a is an individual particle confinement regime, whereas the larger ones are exciton confinement regime wherein Coulomb interaction play an important role. Similarly a size-dependent dielectric constant ~(R) should be used for R <ap <a n. An examination of M reveals that an indirect gap material q-dot behaves as a direct gap material in the limit of very small dot size. We have carried out effective mass theory (EMT) calculations to estimate the charge density on the surface of the quantum dot. We present tight binding (TB) calculation to show that the energy upshift scales as 1/R x, where x is less than 2 and the exponent depends on the orientation of the crystallite.
Bulletin of Materials Science, 1999
Research in semiconductor quantum dots (q-dots) has burgeoned in the past decade. The size (R) of... more Research in semiconductor quantum dots (q-dots) has burgeoned in the past decade. The size (R) of these q-dots ranges from 1 to 100 nm. Based on the theoretical calculations, we propose energy and length scales which help in clarifying the physics of this mcsoscopic system. Some of these length scales are: the Bohr exciton radius (a*), the carrier de Broglie and diffusion length (~'D and ID) , the polaron radius (ap), and the reduction factor modulating the optical matrix element (M). R <a a is an individual particle confinement regime, whereas the larger ones are exciton confinement regime wherein Coulomb interaction play an important role. Similarly a size-dependent dielectric constant ~(R) should be used for R <ap <a n. An examination of M reveals that an indirect gap material q-dot behaves as a direct gap material in the limit of very small dot size. We have carried out effective mass theory (EMT) calculations to estimate the charge density on the surface of the quantum dot. We present tight binding (TB) calculation to show that the energy upshift scales as 1/R x, where x is less than 2 and the exponent depends on the orientation of the crystallite.