The radiative decay of excitons in thin films is studied. The exciton modes capable of radiating are found to be superradiant, in contrast to the case of excitons in a bulk crystal. . It is estimated that this radiative decay mechanism will dominate over the other decay mechanisms such as those due to phonons or lattice imperfections.
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