“…The blue shift of the emission peak for levels 1-6, relative to that for level 7, gives a measure for the mean size of the microcrystals. In the weak confinement regime of the exciton, the mean effective radius of the microcrystals, R, can be estimated by the relation DE ¼ _ 2 p 2 =ð2mR 2 Þ [11] from the blue shift DE, yielding the values R ¼ 4:5; 5:0; 5:4; 5:7; 6:0 and 7.7 nm for the increasing size levels 1-6, where we use the reduced exciton mass m ¼ 0:65m 0 [12] (m 0 is the electron mass); the R values are large compared with the exciton radius, 0.98 nm [12], enough to meet the assumption of the weak confinement. On the other hand the mean size for the polycrystalline state (level 7) is 25 nm as determined by the Warren analysis of the X-ray diffraction peak.…”