Origin of luminescence quenching in structures containing CdSe/ZnSe quantum dots with a few Mn2+ ions

We present a detailed spectroscopic study of photoluminescence quenching in epitaxial structures containing CdSe/ZnSe quantum dots doped with low concentration of Mn2+ ions. Our time-resolved and time-integrated experiments reveal the origin of the quenching observed in macro-photoluminescence studies of ensembles of such dots. We show that incorporation of even a few ions to an individual dot does not quench its luminescence effectively, although some fingerprints of expected spin-dependent quenching are visible. At the same time, the presence of Mn2+ ions in the sample significantly affects the luminescence intensity of the wetting layer, resulting in a quenching of the global luminescence from studied structure. On the other hand, the luminescence decay dynamics are found to be independent of the presence ofMn2+ ions, which suggests that the observed quenching