Time-resolved photoluminescence in CdSe/CdZnSe and CdSe/CdMnSe coupled quantum dot structures

We studied the time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) from coupled quantum dot (QD) systems (CdSe/CdZnSe and CdSe/CdMnSe) and the PL decay as functions of the magnetic field and the temperature. In the CdSe/CdMnSe system, the PL decay of the sigma(+) component exhibited biexponential behavior under external fields, which indicated that a fraction of the CdSe QDs were not coupled to the CdMnSe QDs. The PL lifetimes of these structures were found to be more significantly affected by non-radiative recombination, rather than by the vertical coupling between the QDs.