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Copyright 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Figure 7 Size dependence of the electronic structure in CdSe nanocrystals. Peakpositions are extracted from PLE data as in Fig. 6. Strong (weak) transitions aredenoted <strong>by</strong> circles (crosses). The solid (dashed) lines are visual guides for the strong(weak) transitions to clarify their size evolution. (Adapted from Ref. 9.)The problem lies in the assumption that each valence subband producesits own independent ladder of hole states. In reality, the hole states are mixeddue to the underlying quantum mechanics. To help understand this effect, allof the relevant quantum numbers are summarized in Fig. 9. The total angularmomentum of either the electron or hole ( F e or F h ) has two contributions: (a)a ‘‘unit-cell’’ contribution ( J) due to the underlying atomic basis which formsthe bulk bands and (b) an envelope function contribution (L) due to theparticle-in-a-sphere orbital. To apply the zeroth-order illustration above (Fig.8), we must assume that the quantum numbers describing each valencesubband ( J h ) and each envelope function (L h ) are conserved. However, whenthe Luttinger Hamiltonian is combined with a spherical potential, mixingbetween the bulk valence bands occurs. This effect, which was first shown forbulk impurity centers, [33–35] also mixes quantum-dot hole states [26,39,40,55,77,78]. Only parity and the total hole angular momentum ( F h ) aregood quantum numbers. Neither L h nor J h are conserved. Therefore, each<strong>Copyright</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Marcel</strong> <strong>Dekker</strong>, <strong>Inc</strong>. <strong>All</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Reserved</strong>.

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