Auger-mediated electron relaxation is robust to deep hole traps: Time-domain Ab initio study of CdSe quantum dots

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2086-2091

  Trivedi, Dhara J ^a   Wang, Linjun ^b   Prezhdo, Oleg V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auger processes; CdSe quantum dots; hot electron relaxation; nonadiabatic molecular dynamics; phonon bottleneck; time dependent density functional theory

Indexed keywords

AUGERS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXCITONS; HOLE TRAPS; HOT ELECTRONS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR ENERGY;

AUGER PROCESS; CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; ELECTRON RELAXATION; NONADIABATIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHONON BOTTLENECK; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84924614919     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl504982k     Document Type: Article

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