Electron-hole recombination in quantum dots was studied by photoluminescence and resonant femtosecond pump–probe measurements. A dependence of recombination times with pump pulse intensity was observed and we attribute this to the Auger recombination process. The overall kinetic processes that we observed are a fast decay from the initial excited state to surface trap states, the Auger recombination, the recombination of electrons from the surface states, and a longer time recombination which we attribute to electrons in the deep traps states.
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