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  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology

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  • Semiconductor core-shell nanowires possess unique prismatic geometries.
  • These geometries lead to complex carrier localization patterns.
  • Understanding carrier behavior is key to novel electronic and optical devices.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the formation of optically active in-gap excitonic states.
  • To explore the role of carrier localization in nanowire corners and Coulomb interactions.
  • To analyze the impact of different cross-sectional geometries (triangular, square, hexagonal) on excitonic states.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a multielectron numerical approach.
  • Solved the multiparticle Hamiltonian for electrons in valence and conduction bands.
  • Included nonperturbative Coulomb interaction to compute energy spectra and exciton configurations.

Main Results:

  • Observed the formation of well-separated, quasidegenerate excitonic in-gap states.
  • Demonstrated that Coulomb interaction significantly shifts these states to higher energies.
  • Identified spin-singlet excitonic states associated with symmetrically distributed electrons.

Conclusions:

  • The interplay of carrier localization and Coulomb interaction induces optically active excitonic states in semiconductor nanowires.
  • The multielectron method accurately captures these states, outperforming simpler electron-hole models.
  • Exciton lifetime and recombination selection rules were determined, providing insights into their optical behavior.