Exciton-optical-phonon couplings in semiconductor quantum dots

doi:10.1016/0022-2313(94)90326-3

Journal of Luminescence

Volumes 60–61, April 1994, Pages 786-787

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Abstract

The size dependence of exciton-LO-phonon coupling constant, the Huang-Rhys parameter, is calculated for a spherical semiconductor microcrystallite. It is shown that taking properly the exciton-phonon interaction and valence-band mixing into account in obtaining the exciton wave functions is crucially important in calculating the Huang-Rhys parameter.

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Exciton-optical-phonon couplings in semiconductor quantum dots

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