Luminescence decay in disordered low-dimensional semiconductors
- 25 May 1992
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 60 (21), 2672-2674
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.106891
Abstract
The luminescence decay of excitons in disordered low-dimensional semiconductors with quantum confinement is shown experimentally to be characterized by a nonexponential profile and an absence of spectral diffusion. We are able to describe this luminescence as a hopping-assisted recombination using the correlation function approach to nondispersive transport developed by H. Scher, M. F. Shlesinger, and J. T. Bendler [Phys. Today 41, 26 (1991)]. We suggest a simple derivation of analytical functions which accurately describe the anomalous luminescence decays of disordered II-VI superlattices and of porous silicon, and show that this model includes exponential and Kohlrausch [Pogg. Ann. Phys. 119, 352 (1863)] (stretched-exponential) relaxations as special cases.Keywords
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