Nano Letters, volume 6, issue 12, pages 2728-2735

The Peculiar Electronic Structure of PbSe Quantum Dots

Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2006-11-11
Journal: Nano Letters
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Q1
Quartile WOS
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Impact factor10.8
ISSN15306984, 15306992
General Chemistry
Condensed Matter Physics
General Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering
Bioengineering
Abstract
PbSe is a pseudo-II-VI material distinguished from ordinary II-VI's (e.g., CdSe, ZnSe) by having both its valence band maximum (VBM) and its conduction band minimum (CBM) located at the fourfold-degenerate L-point in the Brillouin zone. It turns out that this feature dramatically affects the properties of the nanosystem. We have calculated the electronic and optical properties of PbSe quantum dots using an atomistic pseudopotential method, finding that the electronic structure is different from that of ordinary II-VI's and, at the same time, is more subtle than what k.p or tight-binding calculations have suggested previously for PbSe. We find the following in PbSe dots: (i) The intraband (valence-to-valence and conduction-to-conduction) as well as interband (valence-to-conduction) excitations involve the massively split L-manifold states. (ii) In contrast to previous suggestions that the spacings between valence band levels will equal those between conduction band levels (because the corresponding effective-masses me approximately mh are similar), we find a densely spaced hole manifold and much sparser electron manifold. This finding reflects the existence of a few valence band maxima in bulk PbSe within approximately 500 meV. This result reverses previous expectations of slow hole cooling in PbSe dots. (iii) The calculated optical absorption spectrum reproduces the measured absorption peak that had previously been attributed to the forbidden 1Sh --> 1Pe or 1Ph --> 1Se transitions on the basis of k.p calculations. However, we find that this transition corresponds to an allowed 1Ph --> 1Pe excitation arising mainly from bulk states near the L valleys on the Gamma-L lines of the Brillouin zone. We discuss this reinterpretation of numerous experimental results.

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An J. M. et al. The Peculiar Electronic Structure of PbSe Quantum Dots // Nano Letters. 2006. Vol. 6. No. 12. pp. 2728-2735.
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An J. M., Franceschetti A., Dudiy S., Zunger A. The Peculiar Electronic Structure of PbSe Quantum Dots // Nano Letters. 2006. Vol. 6. No. 12. pp. 2728-2735.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1021/nl061684x
UR - https://doi.org/10.1021/nl061684x
TI - The Peculiar Electronic Structure of PbSe Quantum Dots
T2 - Nano Letters
AU - An, J. M.
AU - Franceschetti, A
AU - Dudiy, S.V
AU - Zunger, Alex
PY - 2006
DA - 2006/11/11 00:00:00
PB - American Chemical Society (ACS)
SP - 2728-2735
IS - 12
VL - 6
SN - 1530-6984
SN - 1530-6992
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@article{2006_An,
author = {J. M. An and A Franceschetti and S.V Dudiy and Alex Zunger},
title = {The Peculiar Electronic Structure of PbSe Quantum Dots},
journal = {Nano Letters},
year = {2006},
volume = {6},
publisher = {American Chemical Society (ACS)},
month = {nov},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1021/nl061684x},
number = {12},
pages = {2728--2735},
doi = {10.1021/nl061684x}
}
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An, J. M., et al. “The Peculiar Electronic Structure of PbSe Quantum Dots.” Nano Letters, vol. 6, no. 12, Nov. 2006, pp. 2728-2735. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl061684x.
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