Selection rules for bound exciton Auger recombination in semiconductors

Abstract

We use selection rules developed for Auger-electron spectroscopy to study non-radiative transitions of neutral acceptor bound excitons. We show that (total) angular momentum selection rule implies that excitons originating from the J = 0 and the J = 2 two-hole states have different Auger transition probabilities. The results are shown to be in agreement with photoluminescence experiments.