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We have studied emission properties of high-density excitons in single-walled carbon nanotubes through nonlinear photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy. As the excitation intensity was increased, all emission peaks arising from different…
The quasiparticle band structure and optical properties of single-walled zigzag and armchair SiC nanotubes (SiC-NTs) as well as single SiC sheet are investigated by ab initio many-body calculations using the GW and the GW plus…
Room-temperature single-photon emission (SPE) resulting from a biexciton-exciton cascaded decay is demonstrated for the first time from chemically and photoelectrochemically etched site-controlled In0.14Ga0.86N quantum dots (QDs) embedded…
The population dynamics of single- and bi-exciton states in semiconductor nanocrystals is modeled numerically in the presence of Coulomb coupling between single- and two-exciton states and a dissipation channel in order to study the…
Multiple exciton generation is a process in which more than one electron hole pair is generated per absorbed photon. It allows us to increase the efficiency of solar energy harvesting. Experimental studies have shown the multiple exciton…
A theoretical model is developed for treating super conductive Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) effects for excitons in planar systems, under the condition that many excitons are included in a surface area, with the dimensions of the…
The recent development of efficient chirality sorting techniques has opened the way to the use of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in a plethora of nanoelectronic, photovoltaic, and optoelectronic applications. However, to understand…
The statistical theory of multiple exciton generation in quantum dots which is based on the Fermi approach to the problem of multiple particle in nucleon-nucleon collisions is presented. Our estimates of the multiple exciton generation…
We study the role of the effective mass, band mixing and phonon emission on multiexciton generation in IV-VI nanocrystals. A 4-band k dot p effective mass model, which allows for an independent variation of these parameters, is adopted to…
We report on systematic numerical study of carrier multiplication (CM) processes in spherically symmetric nanocrystal (NC) and bulk forms of PbSe and PbS representing the test bed for understanding basic aspects of CM dynamics. The adopted…
We compute the exciton transfer (ET) rate between semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). We show that the main reasons for the wide range of measured ET rates reported in the literature are 1) exciton confinement in local…
Utilizing the excess energy of photoexcitation that is otherwise lost as thermal effects can improve the efficiency of next-generation light-harvesting devices. Multiple exciton generation (MEG) in semiconducting materials yields two or…
The optical absorption spectrum of the carbon (4,2) nanotube is computed using an ab-initio many-body approach which takes into account excitonic effects. We develop a new method involving a local basis set which is symmetric with respect…
Through an investigation of photoemission properties of highly-photoexcited single-walled carbon nanotubes, we demonstrate that there is an upper limit on the achievable excitonic density. As the intensity of optical excitation increases,…
The incorporation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) within polymer hosts offers a great platform for the development of advanced thermoelectric (TE) composite materials. Over the years, several CNT/polymer composite formulations have been…
We perform {\it ab initio} many-body calculations to investigate the exciton shift current in small diameter zigzag BN nanotubes and also single BN sheet, using the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) method with the newly developed…
We discuss how excitons can affect the generation of coherent radial breathing modes in ultrafast spectroscopy of single wall carbon nanotubes. Photoexcited excitons can be localized spatially and give rise to a spatially distributed…
Photophysics of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is intensively studied due to their potential application in light harvesting and optoelectronics. Excited states of SWCNTs form strongly bound electron-hole pairs, excitons, of which…
We consider theoretically the formation and stability of quasi-one dimensional many-body excitons in GaAs quantum wire structures under external photoexcitation conditions by solving the dynamically screened Bethe-Salpeter equation for…
Long-lived exciton coherences have been recently observed in photosynthetic complexes via ultrafast spectroscopy, opening exciting possibilities for the study and design of coherent exciton transport. Yet, ambiguity in the spectroscopic…