Dynamics of photoexcited carriers in molecular beam epitaxy grown semimagnetic epilayers in magnetic fields

Time-resolved photoluminescence has been measured on molecular beam epitaxy grown Cd1-xMnxTe epilayer samples. The photoluminescence intensity of magnetic polarons exhibits a very long emission tail. The observed phenomenon is attributed to the conversion of the dark excitons to dipole allowed transitions by a spin-flip process. The magnetic field dependence of the two-exponential decay property is discussed within the frame of giant Zeeman splitting, the spin-flip scattering, and the formation of the magnetic polarons. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-8979(99)43208-6].