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Figure 12 Schematics depicting the origin of the observed avoided crossings. For aparticular nanocrystal size, a resonance occurs between a hole level from the A and Bbands (combined for simplicity) and a hole level from the C band. Energy level diagramsfor the hole states are shown in (a) and (b) for the two resonances responsiblefor the observed avoided crossings. (c) The energy of the hole states versus decreasingradius. The solid (dashed) lines represent the levels without (with) the valence band andS-D mixing.13, the effect of the anisotropy of the crystal lattice and/or the nonsphericalshape of the crystallite dominates. This corresponds to the bulk limit wherethe exchange interaction between the electron and hole is negligible (0.15 meV)[85]. The band-edge exciton is split into two fourfold degenerate states, analogousto the bulk A–B splitting (see Fig. 3b). The splitting occurs due to thereduction from spherical to uniaxial symmetry. However, because the exchangeinteraction is proportional to the overlap between the electron andhole, in small dots this term is strongly enhanced due to the confinement of thecarriers [81–84]. Therefore, the right-hand side of Fig. 13 represents the smallnanocrystal limit where the exchange interaction dominates. In this case, theimportant quantum number is the total angular momentum, N (see Fig. 9).Because F h = 3/2 and F e = 1/2, the band-edge exciton is split into a fivefolddegenerate N = 2 state and a threefold degenerate N = 1 state. In the center<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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