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Understanding nanoscale electronic and thermal transport of two-dimensional (2D) electron systems in the quantum Hall regime, particularly in the bulk insulating state, poses considerable challenges. One of the primary difficulties arises…

We present measurements of the second-order coherence function on emission from single GaN quantum dots. In some cases a large degree of photon antibunching is observed, demonstrating isolation of a single quantum system. For a selected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Charles Santori , Stephan Gotzinger , Yoshihisa Yamamoto , Satoshi Kako , Katsuyuki Hoshino , Yasuhiko Arakawa

We observed a circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) in GaAs quantum wells at inter-band excitation. The spectral dependence of the CPGE is measured together with that of the polarization degree of the time resolved photoluminescence. A…

Dark current is shown to be significantly reduced in quantum well infrared photodetectors in the tunneling regime, i.e. at very low temperature, by shifting the dopant impurity layers away from the central part of the wells. This result…

Crystallographic point defects (PDs) can dramatically decrease the efficiency of optoelectronic semiconductor devices, many of which are based on quantum well (QW) heterostructures. However, spatially resolving individual non-radiative PDs…

We report on a dynamic photoconductive gain effect in quantum wires which are lithographically fabricated in an AlGaAs/GaAs quantum well via a shallow-etch technique. The effect allows resolving the one-dimensional subbands of the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. -D. Hof , C. Rossler , S. Manus , J. P. Kotthaus , A. W. Holleitner , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider

In this paper the photon-assisted electron motion in a multiquantum well (MQW) semiconductor heterostructure in the presence of an electric field is investigated. The time-dependent Schrodinger equation is solved by using the split-operator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Anibal T. Bezerra , Marcelo Z. Maialle , Marcos H. Degani , Paulo F. Farinas , Nelson Studart

We investigated excitonic absorptions in GaAs/AlAs/GaAs single barrier heterostructure using both photocapacitance and photocurrent spectroscopies at room temperature. Photocapacitance spectra show well defined resonance peak of indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Amit Bhunia , Mohit Kumar Singh , Y. Galvao Gobato , Mohamed Henini , Shouvik Datta

We investigate the photoluminescence temperature dependence of individual InAs/InGaAlAs quantum dots emitting in the optical telecommunication bands. The high-density dots are grown on InP substrates and the selection of a smaller dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 C. Hermannstädter , N. A. Jahan , J. -H. Huh , H. Sasakura , K. Akahane , M. Sasaki , I. Suemune

We investigate sub-monolayer InN quantum sheets embedded in GaN(0001) by temperature-dependent photoluminescence spectroscopy under both continuous-wave and pulsed excitation. Both the peak energy and the linewidth of the emission band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Felix Feix , Timur Flissikowski , Caroline Chèze , Raffaella Calarco , Holger T. Grahn , Oliver Brandt

We employ polarization-shaped ultrafast optical pulses to generate photocurrents which only arise if the optically induced coherent polarization is frequency modulated. This frequency modulation is obtained via detuned excitation of…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-14 Shekhar Priyadarshi , Klaus Pierz , Mark Bieler

An electrically isolated quantum well (QW) island can be positively charged by incoming infrared photon, because its electrons absorb photon energy via intersubband transition and acquire enough energy to escape it. This process has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 Ting-Ting Kang , Susumu Komiyama , Takeji Ueda , Shi-Wei Lin , Sheng-Di Lin

Indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum well (QW) micro- and nanoscale light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are promising for next-generation ultrafast optical interconnects and augmented/virtual reality displays. However, scaling to nanoscale…

We report on temperature dependent photocurrent measurements of high-quality dual-gated monolayer graphene (MLG) p-n junction devices. A photothermoelectric (PTE) effect governs the photocurrent response in our devices, allowing us to track…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 Qiong Ma , Nathaniel M. Gabor , Trond I. Andersen , Nityan L. Nair , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

InGaAs/GaAsBi/InGaAs quantum wells (QWs) were grown on GaAs substrates by gas source molecular beam epitaxy for realizing the type II band-edge line-up. Both type I and type II transitions were observed in the Bi containing W QWs and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-21 Wenwu Pan , Liang Zhu , Liyao Zhang , Yaoyao Li , Peng Wang , Xiaoyan Wu , Fan Zhang , Jun Shao , Shumin Wang

We report on resonant optical spectroscopy of self-assembled InGaAs quantum dots in which the number of electrons can accurately be tuned to N=0,1,2 by an external gate voltage. Polarization, wave vector and magnetic field dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tim Köppen , Dennis Franz , Andreas Schramm , Christian Heyn , Johann Gutjahr , Daniela Pfannkuche , Detlef Heitmann , Tobias Kipp

We report on the exciton propagation in polar (Al,Ga)N/GaN quantum wells over several micrometers and up to room temperature. The key ingredient to achieve this result is the crystalline quality of GaN quantum wells (QWs) grown on GaN…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 F. Fedichkin , T. Guillet , P. Valvin , B. Jouault , C. Brimont , T. Bretagnon , L. Lahourcade , N. Grandjean , P. Lefebvre , M. Vladimirova

In this work, we analyze the relevance of excitation parameters on the emission from single-photon emitting defect centers in GaN. We investigate the absorption spectrum of different emitters by photoluminescence excitation technique at…

Single semiconductor quantum dots have been widely studied within devices that can apply an electric field. In the most common system, the low energy offset between the InGaAs quantum dot and the surrounding GaAs material limits the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 R. B. Patel , A. J. Bennett , I. Farrer , C. A. Nicoll , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

We study experimentally and theoretically the temperature dependence of transverse magnetic routing of light emission from hybrid plasmonic-semiconductor quantum well structures where the exciton emission from the quantum well is routed…