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The purpose of the study is to calculate the radiative lifetime of Wannier-Mott excitons in three-dimensional potential wells formed of direct-gap narrow-gap semiconductor nanoclusters in wide-gap semiconductors and assumed to be large compared to the exciton radius. Calculations are carried out for the InAs/GaAs heterosystem. It is shown that, as the nanocluster dimensions are reduced to values on the order of the exciton radius, the exciton radiative lifetime becomes several times longer compared to that in a homogeneous semiconductor. The increase in the radiative lifetime is more pronounced at low temperatures. Thus, it is established that the placement of Wannier-Mott excitons into direct-gap semiconductor nanoclusters, whose dimensions are of the order of the exciton radius, can be used for considerable extension of the exciton radiative lifetime.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Kukushkin, 2015, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2015, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 76–81.
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Kukushkin, V.A. Extension of the radiative lifetime of Wannier-Mott excitons in semiconductor nanoclusters. Semiconductors 49, 75–80 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782615010157
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