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We report results on the effect of a non-sharp and disordered potential in Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors (QWIP). Scanning electronic transmission microscopy is used to measure the alloy profile of the structure which is shown to…
We study the in-plane stationary current caused by phototransitions between the states of a double quantum well. The electric polarization of light has both vertical and in-plane components. The stationary current originates from the…
Tho-photon absorption holds potential for many practical applications. We theoretically investigate the onset of this phenomenon in a semiconductor quantum dot -- metallic nanoshell composite subjected to a resonant CW excitation.…
We propose and analyze an efficient scheme for suppressing the absorption of a weak probe field based on intersubband transitions in a four-level asymmetric coupled-quantum well (CQW) driven coherently by a probe laser field and a control…
Quantum well (QW) structures are widely used in lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, modulators, enabling their monolithic integration on the same substrate. As optoelectronic systems evolve to meet the growing bandwidth demands in the…
Photon blockade is a dynamical quantum-nonlinear effect that occurs in driven systems with an anharmonic excitation ladder. For a single atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity, we show that driving the atom gives a decisively larger…
Light reflection and absorption spectra by a semiconductor quantum well (QW) , which width is comparable to a light wave length of stimulating radiation, are calculated. A resonance with two close located exited levels is considered. These…
As semiconductor device dimensions are reduced to the nanometer scale, effects of high defect density surfaces on the transport properties become important to the extent that the metallic character that prevails in large and highly doped…
Recent interest in the physics of non-perturbative light-matter coupling led to the development of solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics setups in which the interaction energies are comparable with the bare ones. In such a regime the…
We demonstrate by time-resolved resonance fluorescence measurements on a single self-assembled quantum dot an internal photo-effect that emits electrons from the dot by an intra-band excitation. We find a linear dependence of the optically…
Intra and intersubband scattering rates and electron capture rates are considered when mediated by hybrid optical phonons in an AlAs/GaAs/AlAs double heterostructure confined between two outer metallic barriers. In evaluating scattering…
We use a double quantum dot as a frequency-tunable on-chip microwave detector to investigate the radiation from electron shot-noise in a near-by quantum point contact. The device is realized by monitoring the inelastic tunneling of…
Light reflection and absorption spectra by a semiconductor quantum well (QW), which width is comparable to a light wave length of stimulating radiation, are calculated. A resonance with two close located exited levels is considered. These…
We observe oscillatory magnetoresistance in double quantum wells under microwave irradiation. The results are explained in terms of the influence of subband coupling on the frequency-dependent photoinduced part of the electron distribution…
The problem of electron binding states in field of two D0 centres in semiconductive quantum well (QW) in the presence of an external longitudinal magnetic field (along the QW growth axis) is studied within the framework of zero-range…
We have directly demonstrated that homogeneous photoexcitation of a quantum well in presence of uniform tilted magnetic field gives rise to a set of bypass in-plane electric currents of a different value which may flow even in the opposite…
Photon absorption in a semiconductor produces bright excitons that recombine very fast into photons. We here show that in a quantum dot set close to a p-doped reservoir, this absorption can produce a dark duo, i.e., an electron-hole pair…
General analytic expressions for the total absorption coefficient of strong electromagnetic waves caused by confined electrons in Infinite semi-parabolic plus Semi-inverse Squared Quantum Wells (ISPSISQW) are obtained by using the quantum…
The light reflectance and absorbance are calculated for a quantum well (QW) the width of which is comparable with the light wave length. The difference of the refraction coefficients of the quantum well and barriers is taken into account.…
It is shown that the free-carrier (Drude) absorption of circularly polarized radiation in quantum well structures leads to an electric current flow. The photocurrent reverses its direction upon switching the light helicity. A pure orbital…