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Exciton hopping probed by picosecond time-resolved cathodoluminescence

Shahmohammadi, Mehran  
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Jacopin, Gwénolé Jean  
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Fu, Xuewen
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2015
Applied Physics Letters

The exciton transport is studied in high quality ZnO microwires using time resolved cathodoluminescence. Owing to the available picosecond temporal and nanometer spatial resolution, a direct estimation of the exciton average speed has been measured. When raising the temperature, a strong decrease of the effective exciton mobility (hopping speed of donor-bound excitons) has been observed in the absence of any remarkable change in the effective lifetime of excitons. Additionally, the exciton hopping speed was observed to be independent of the strain gradient value, revealing the hopping nature of exciton movement. These experimental results are in good agreement with the behavior predicted for impurity-bound excitons in our previously published theoretical model based on Monte-Carlo simulations, suggesting the hopping process as the main transport mechanism of impurity-bound excitons at low temperatures.

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research article
DOI
10.1063/1.4932098
Web of Science ID

WOS:000363422100001

Author(s)
Shahmohammadi, Mehran  
Jacopin, Gwénolé Jean  
Fu, Xuewen
Ganière, Jean-Daniel  
Yu, Depang
Deveaud, Benoît  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

American Institute of Physics

Published in
Applied Physics Letters
Volume

107

Issue

14

Article Number

141101

Subjects

Exciton hopping

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time resolved cathodoluminescence

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pure bending

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strain gradient

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ZnO

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REVIEWED

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October 21, 2015
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