“…In comparison, the decay curves for the SQDs were determined to be multi-exponential in nature, and the bi-exponential function, I(t) = A 1 exp[−(t−t 0 )/τ 1 ] + A 2 exp[−(t−t 0 )/τ 2 ], was used to fit them. This was due to either the indirect transition of the SQDs or the fast carrier transfer from the SQDs to surface states [42,43]. In this case, we associate the index, 1, with the slower lifetime of carrier recombination, τ 1 , and the index, 2, with the faster carrier transfer time, τ 2 , from the SQDs to the surface states.…”