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We calculate the height dependence of recombination energies, polarization and radiative lifetimes of the optical transitions of various excitonic complexes: neutral excitons (X^0), negatively- (X^-) and positively-charged (X^+) trions, and…
The binding energies of trions ($X^+$, $X^-$) and biexciton (XX) in self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are very sensitive to the geometry and chemical composition of the QDs, and are random from dots to dots. However, in this…
A variational calculation of the ground-state energy of neutral excitons and of positively and negatively charged excitons (trions) confined in a single-quantum well is presented. We study the dependence of the correlation energy and of the…
Excitons and charged excitons (trions) are investigated in ZnSe-based quantum well structures with (Zn,Be,Mg)Se and (Zn,Mg)(S,Se) barriers by means of magneto-optical spectroscopy. Binding energies of negatively () and positively (X+)…
We use a many-body, atomistic empirical pseudopotential approach to predict the multi-exciton emission spectrum of a lens shaped InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dot. We discuss the effects of (i) The direct Coulomb energies, including the…
A simple illustrative wave function with only three variational parameters is suggested to calculate the binding energy of negatively charged excitons (X-) as a function of quantum well width. The results of calculations are in agreement…
We report a photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy study of charge state control in single self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots by applying electric and/or magnetic fields at 4.2 K. Neutral and charged exciton complexes were observed under…
We report a photoluminescence study of electron-hole complexes in specially designed semiconductor heterostructures. Placing a remote dilute layer of donors at different distances \itshape d \normalfont from the quantum well leads to the…
A theoretical model, which relates the binding energy of a positively charged exciton in a quantum dot with the confinement energy is presented. It is shown that the binding energy, defined as the energy difference between the corresponding…
A variational calculation of the ground state of a neutral exciton and of positively and negatively charged excitons (trions) in single quantum well is presented. We study the dependance of the correlation energy and of the binding energy…
So far in the literature the terms "charged exciton" and "trion" are often confused with each other and mostly considered as the same. In this work we show this is not the case in 2D quantum dots with a parabolic confinement. By using the…
Charged excitons, or X$^{\pm}$-trions, in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides have binding energies of several tens of meV. Together with the neutral exciton X$^0$ they dominate the emission spectrum at low and elevated temperatures.…
We investigate the effect of uniaxial stress on InGaAs quantum dots in a charge tunable device. Using Coulomb blockade and photoluminescence, we observe that significant tuning of single particle energies (~ -0.5 meV/MPa) leads to variable…
We theoretically study biexcitons and quadrons in quantum dots with parabolic confinement and give a complete comparison between the two excitations. The calculation of quadron and biexciton binding energies as functions of electron-to-hole…
We present results on the charge dependence of the radiative recombination lifetime, Tau, and the emission energy of excitons confined to single self-assembled InGaAs quantum dots. There are significant dot-to-dot fluctuations in the…
Nanowire quantum dots, i.e., heterostructures consisting of an axial insertion of low bandgap semiconductor within large band gap semiconductor nanowire, attract interest due to their emerging applications in the field of quantum…
Neutral excitons in strained axially symmetric In(Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots with ringlike shape are investigated. Similar to experimental self-assembled quantum rings, the analyzed quantum dots have volcano-like shapes. The continuum…
We present a model to take into account the interface defects contribution on the binding energy of charged exciton in GaAs/Al$_{0.3}$Ga$_{0.7}$As quantum wells. The dependence of the binding energy gain and of the trion size on the quantum…
We present results of atomistic empirical pseudopotential calculations and configuration interaction for excitons, positive and negative trions (X\pm), positive and negative quartons (X2\pm) and biexcitons. The structure investigated are…
A theoretical study of the exciton binding energy in the two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride monolayer is presented within the tight-binding approximation (TBA). A self-consistent equation for the interband electron-hole propagators is…