Nonradiative recombination of hot photoelectrons in CdS nanocrystals embedded in glass

Abstract
Transient luminescence spectra are investigated in highly photoexcited CdS nanocrystals (average radii 5.4–100 nm) embedded in glass. Luminescence-intensity kinetics exhibits distortion attributed to carrier-temperature-activated nonradiative recombination due to multiphonon emission. The distortion enhances with reduced crystallite size indicating that the photomodified semiconductor-glass interface originates deep traps with localization barrier of 130 meV.