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Radiative recombination processes in wide-band-gap II–VI quantum wells: the interplay between excitons and free carriers

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We investigated the excitonic or free-carrier nature of lasing in ZnCdSe/ZnSe quantum wells through stimulated emission measurements in high magnetic field and by pump–probe nonlinear transmission. A free-exciton to free-carrier gas-phase transition with increasing photoinjected density was found to determine the recombination mechanism responsible for lasing. A self-consistent theory based on the mass-action law, including many-body renormalization of the exciton binding energy and of the hot-carrier effects, was used to extract the phase diagram of the exciton–plasma gas from the pump–probe experiments. In deeper wells, exciton localization at sample inhomogeneities is demonstrated by time-resolved photoluminescence experiments. Correspondingly, the exciton to free-carrier phase transition does not change the dominant excitonic character of lasing, which reflects the increasing screening threshold of localized excitons.

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