We investigated CdTe nanocrystal tetrapods of different sizes by resonant
inelastic light scattering at room temperature and under cryogenic conditions.
We observe a strongly resonant behavior of the phonon scattering with the
excitonic structure of the tetrapods. Under resonant conditions we detect a set
of phonon modes that can be understood as confined longitudinal-optical
phonons, surface-optical phonons, and transverse-optical phonons in a nanowire
picture.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure