Abstract
Wave function engineering has become a powerful tool to tailor the optical properties of semiconductor colloidal nanocrystals. Core-shell systems allow to design the spatial extent of the electron (e) and hole (h) wave functions in the conduction- and valence bands, respectively. However, tuning the overlap between the e- and h-wave functions not only affects the oscillator strength of the coupled e-h pairs (excitons) that are responsible for the light emission, but also modifies the e-h exchange interaction, leading to an altered excitonic energy spectrum. Here, we present exciton lifetime measurements in a strong magnetic field to determine the strength of the e-h exchange interaction, independently of the e-h overlap that is deduced from lifetime measurements at room temperature. We use a set of CdTe/CdSe core/shell heteronanocrystals in which the electron-hole separation is systematically varied. We are able to unravel the separate effects of e-h overlap and e-h exchange on the exciton lifetimes, and we present a simple model that fully describes the recombination lifetimes of heteronanostructures (HNCs) as a function of core volume, shell volume, temperature, and magnetic fields.
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