Micro photoluminescence spectra of CdTe and CdMnTe self-organized quantum dots

We report on micro photoluminescence (mu-PL) experiments in CdTe and CdMnTe quantum dots (QDs). PL spectra of the CdTe QDs indicate an ensemble of dis crete narrow lines, each of which arises from a single dot emission. High e mission efficiency of the present QDs allows the time resolving of the mu-P L signal. Dependence of the PL decay time on the QD size shows the evidence for the quantum size effect of the radiative recombination process. For Cd MnTe QDs, it is found that the discrete spectral feature disappears in the mu-PL spectrum, reflecting the fast relaxation kinetics of excitons in the manganese doped QDs. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All lights reserved.