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Conference paper (2015) - Pieter Geiregat, Christophe Delerue, Yolanda Justo, Michiel Aerts, Frank Spoor, Dries Van Thourhout, Laurens Siebbeles, Guy Allan, A.J. Houtepen, Zeger Hens
The cooling dynamics of hot charge carriers in colloidal lead chalcogenide nanocrystals is studied by white light transient absorption spectroscopy. We demonstrate a transient accumulation of charge carriers at a high-energy critical point in the Brillouin zone. Using a theoretical study of the cooling rate in lead chalcogenides, we attribute this slowing down of charge carrier cooling to a phonon scattering bottleneck around this critical point. Our approach allows for the first ever determination of hot carrier cooling rates, relevant in e.g. modeling of multiple exciton generation. ...