A new model for the recombination and radiative lifetime of trions and biexcitons in spherically shaped semiconductor nanocrystals

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new model to accurately predict the recombination oscillator strength and radiative lifetime of trions and biexcitons in spherical semiconductor nanocrystals, validated against complex computational methods.

Contribution

A novel model for calculating recombination and radiative properties of trions and biexcitons in spherical nanocrystals, offering comparable accuracy to advanced methods.

Findings

Model accurately predicts radiative lifetimes.

Validation confirms model's effectiveness against complex calculations.

Applicable to bound and unbound cases in quantum dots.

Abstract

In this letter, we propose a new model to determine the recombination oscillator strength of trions and biexcitons for bound and unbound cases in the effective mass approximation. The validity of our model has been confirmed by the radiative lifetime of the trion and biexciton in a spherical quantum dot. The results show that the model works sufficient accuracy in comparison with results of more complex methods such as quantum monte carlo techniques and atomistic calculations.