Anomalous suppression of valley splittings in lead salt nanocrystals without inversion center

作者:Poddubny A N*; Nestoklon M O; Goupalov S V
来源:Physical Review B, 2012, 86(3): 035324.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.86.035324

摘要

We demonstrate that confinement-induced intervalley splittings of electron energy levels in PbSe and PbS nanocrystals are sensitive to the arrangement of atoms within a nanocrystal. The splittings are strongly suppressed for stoichiometric nanocrystals of T-d point symmetry lacking a center of inversion as opposed to nonstoichiometric nanocrystals of O-h point symmetry having an inversion center. Our findings are supported by both atomistic sp(3)d(5)s* tight-binding calculations and a symmetry analysis.

  • 出版日期2012-7-25