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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages 4351-4359Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct400485s
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- Syracuse University
- GAANN fellowship [P200A090277]
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Exciton binding energy and electron-hole recombination probability are presented as two important metrics for investigating effect of dot size on electron-hole interaction in CdSe quantum dots. Direct computation of electron-hole recombination probability is challenging because it requires an accurate mathematical description of the electron-hole wave function in the neighborhood of the electron-hole coalescence point. In this work, we address this challenge by solving the electron-hole Schrodinger equation using the electron-hole explicitly correlated Hartree-Fock (eh-XCHF) method. The calculations were performed for a series of CdSe clusters ranging from Cd20Se19 to Cd74608Se74837 that correspond to dot diameter range 1-20 nm. The calculated exciton binding energies and electron-hole recombination probabilities were found to decrease with increasing dot size. Both of these quantities were found to scale as D-dot(-n) with respect to the dot diameter D. One of the key insights from this study is that the electron-hole recombination probability decreases at a much faster rate than the exciton binding energy as a function of dot size. It was found that an increase in the dot size by a factor of 16.1, resulted in a decrease in the exciton binding energy and electron-hole recombination probability by a factor of 12.9 and 4.55 X 10(5), respectively.
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