Electron and hole g-factors and spin dynamics of negatively charged excitons in CdSe/CdS colloidal nanoplatelets with thick shells

TL;DR

This study investigates the spin properties and dynamics of carriers and charged excitons in CdSe/CdS colloidal nanoplatelets with thick shells, revealing electron and hole g-factors and developing a magneto-optical technique for orientation analysis.

Contribution

It provides new measurements of electron and hole g-factors in nanoplatelets and introduces a magneto-optical method for assessing nanoplatelet orientation.

Findings

Electron g-factor of 1.68 measured

Hole g-factor varies from -0.4 to -0.7 with magnetic field

Developed a technique for nanoplatelet orientation evaluation

Abstract

We address spin properties and spin dynamics of carriers and charged excitons in CdSe/CdS colloidal nanoplatelets with thick shells. Magneto-optical studies are performed by time-resolved and polarization-resolved photoluminescence, spin-flip Raman scattering and picosecond pump-probe Faraday rotation in magnetic fields up to 30 T. We show that at low temperatures the nanoplatelets are negatively charged so that their photoluminescence is dominated by radiative recombination of negatively charged excitons (trions). Electron g-factor of 1.68 is measured and heavy-hole g-factor varying with increasing magnetic field from -0.4 to -0.7 is evaluated. Hole g-factors for two-dimensional structures are calculated for various hole confining potentials for cubic- and wurtzite lattice in CdSe core. These calculations are extended for various quantum dots and nanoplatelets based on II-VI semiconductors. We developed a magneto-optical technique for the quantitative evaluation of the nanoplatelets orientation in ensemble.