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Enhanced carrier multiplication in engineered quasi-type-II quantum dots

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  • Claudiu M. Cirloganu

    (Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

  • Lazaro A. Padilha

    (Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

  • Qianglu Lin

    (New Mexico State University)

  • Nikolay S. Makarov

    (Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

  • Kirill A. Velizhanin

    (Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

  • Hongmei Luo

    (New Mexico State University)

  • Istvan Robel

    (Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

  • Jeffrey M. Pietryga

    (Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

  • Victor I. Klimov

    (Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Abstract

One process limiting the performance of solar cells is rapid cooling (thermalization) of hot carriers generated by higher-energy solar photons. In principle, the thermalization losses can be reduced by converting the kinetic energy of energetic carriers into additional electron-hole pairs via carrier multiplication (CM). While being inefficient in bulk semiconductors this process is enhanced in quantum dots, although not sufficiently high to considerably boost the power output of practical devices. Here we demonstrate that thick-shell PbSe/CdSe nanostructures can show almost a fourfold increase in the CM yield over conventional PbSe quantum dots, accompanied by a considerable reduction of the CM threshold. These structures enhance a valence-band CM channel due to effective capture of energetic holes into long-lived shell-localized states. The attainment of the regime of slowed cooling responsible for CM enhancement is indicated by the development of shell-related emission in the visible observed simultaneously with infrared emission from the core.

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  • Claudiu M. Cirloganu & Lazaro A. Padilha & Qianglu Lin & Nikolay S. Makarov & Kirill A. Velizhanin & Hongmei Luo & Istvan Robel & Jeffrey M. Pietryga & Victor I. Klimov, 2014. "Enhanced carrier multiplication in engineered quasi-type-II quantum dots," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 5(1), pages 1-8, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:5:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms5148
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5148
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    1. Jungchul Noh & Clément Livache & Donghyo Hahm & Valerio Pinchetti & Ho Jin & Changjo Kim & Victor I. Klimov, 2025. "Highly efficient carrier multiplication in inverted CdSe/HgSe quantum dots mediated by magnetic impurities," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-12, December.

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