We studied the carrier confinement in tetrapod-shaped colloidal CdTe nanocrystals by means of absorption, photoluminescence, and photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy at room and cryogenic temperatures. The spectra show features characteristic of the tetrapod shape together with a clear dependence on the dominant confinement parameter, i.e., the diameter of the tetrapod arm. Theoretical calculations based on an envelope-function approximation and using the exact tetrapod shape have been performed to assign the observed spectral features. Oscillator strength and size dependence of the transitions energy have been calculated showing a direct correlation between the oscillator strength and the nanocrystal shape.

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We experimentally determine the band offset of strain-compensated InGaAsP–InGaAsP multiquantum-well (MQW) heterostructures, emitting at 1.55μm, that were grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. A band offset value of about 56% is found for the conduction band, which is higher than the value reported for the unstrained structure. The temperature dependence of the photoluminescence intensity shows that the unipolar detrapping of carriers in such MQWs is more efficient than the thermal activation of excitons.