arXiv · 1405.0777
Relative stability of excitonic complexes in quasi-one-dimensional semiconductors
Abstract
A configuration space approach is developed to uncover generic stability peculiarities for the lowest energy neutral and charged exciton complexes (biexciton and trion) in quasi-one-dimensional semiconductors. Trions are shown to be more stable than biexcitons in strongly confined structures with small reduced electron-hole masses. Biexcitons are more stable in less confined structures with large reduced electron-hole masses. In semiconducting carbon nanotubes, in particular, the trion binding energy is shown to be greater than that of the biexciton by a factor ~1.4 decreasing with diameter, thus revealing the general physical principles that underlie recent experimental observations.
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I. V. Bondarev. 2014-05-05. Relative stability of excitonic complexes in quasi-one-dimensional semiconductors. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.90.245430
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