Optical Transitions in Artificial Few-Electron Atoms Strongly Confined inside ZnO Nanocrystals
- 5 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 90 (9), 097401
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.90.097401
Abstract
We have studied the optical transitions in artificial atoms consisting of one to ten electrons occupying the conduction levels in ZnO nanocrystals. We analyzed near IR absorption spectra of assemblies of weakly coupled ZnO nanocrystals for a gradually increasing electron number and found four allowed dipole transitions with oscillator strengths in quantitative agreement with tight-binding theory. Furthermore, this spectroscopy provides the single-particle energy separation between the conduction levels of the ZnO quantum dots.Keywords
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