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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 73, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.205423
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In the impact ionization process, a hot carrier relaxes by generating an exciton. We present tight binding calculations showing that the rate of this process in PbSe nanocrystals has a strong energy dependence and that the relaxation energy increases linearly with the carrier excess energy. The impact ionization can be extremely fast (similar to fs) but it is not enhanced by the confinement in contrast to the usual belief. It explains the multiple exciton generation observed experimentally in these dots except at high photon energy where more complex many-particle phenomena are involved.
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