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Germanium nanostructures offer significant potential in developing advanced integrated circuit and disruptive quantum technologies, yet achieving both scalability and high carrier mobility remains a challenge in materials science. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Jian-Huan Wang , Ming Ming , Ding-Ming Huang , Jie-Yin Zhang , Yi Luo , Bin-Xiao Fu , Yi-Xin Chu , Yuan Yao , Hongqi Xu , Jian-Jun Zhang

The authors report surface-acoustic-wave-driven luminescence from a lateral p-n junction formed by molecular beam epitaxy regrowth of a modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well on a patterned GaAs substrate. Surface-acoustic-wave-driven…

The development of deterministic single photon sources emitting in the telecommunication bands is a key challenge for quantum communication and photonic quantum computing. Here, we investigate the optical properties and single-photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Beatrice Costa , Bianca Scaparra , Xiao Wei , Hubert Riedl , Gregor Koblmüller , Eugenio Zallo , Jonathan Finley , Lukas Hanschke , Kai Müller

InAs semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) emitting in the near infrared are promising platforms for on-demand single-photon sources and spin-photon interfaces. However, the realization of quantum-photonic nanodevices emitting in the second and…

Tuning GaAs-based quantum emitters to telecom wavelengths makes it possible to use the existing mature technology for applications in, e.g., long-haul ultra-secure communication in the fiber networks. A promising method re-developed…

We measured resonant Raman scattering by intersubband electronic excitations in GaAs/AlAs single quantum wells (QWs) with well widths ranging from 8.5 to 18 nm. In narrow (less than 10 nm) QWs with sufficiently high electron concentrations,…

III-V semiconductor nanowires have shown great potential in various quantum transport experiments. However, realizing a scalable high-quality nanowire-based platform that could lead to quantum information applications has been challenging.…

The recent progress on (Si)GeSn optoelectronic devices holds a great promising for photonic integration on the Si substrate. In parallel to the development of bulk devices, the (Si)GeSn based quantum wells (QWs) have been investigated…

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have been used to transport single electrons across long distances of several hundreds of microns. They can potentially be instrumental in the implementation of scalable quantum processors and quantum…

Variations in the width of a quantum well (QW) are known to be a source of broadening of the exciton line. Using low temperature near-field optical microscopy, we have exploited the dependence of exciton energy on well-width to show that in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Yayon , A. Esser , M. Rappaport , V. Umansky , H. Shtrikman , I. Bar-Joseph

Self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) are promising optomechanical elements due to their excellent photonic properties and sensitivity to local strain fields. Microwave-frequency modulation of photons scattered from these efficient quantum…

We report measurements of radiation transmission in the 0.220--0.325 THz frequency domain through GaN quantum wells grown on sapphire substrates at room and low temperatures. A significant enhancement of the transmitted beam intensity with…

In traditional approaches of obtaining quantized acoustoelectric current, a narrow channel is fabricated to form quantum dots, which hold a fixed number of electrons at a certain depth. We propose a natural way of forming quantum dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiang-Song Chen

We report quantum dots fabricated on very shallow 2-dimensional electron gases, only 30 nm below the surface, in undoped GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Due to the absence of dopants, an improvement of more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 W. Y. Mak , F. Sfigakis , K. Das Gupta , O. Klochan , H. E. Beere , I. Farrer , J. P. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , A. R. Hamilton , D. A. Ritchie

In this study, we report here on a successful growth by molecular beam epitaxy of high crystalline quality Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_{x}$Se:Bi/Pb$_{1-y}$Eu$_{y}$Se QWs with $x = 0.25$ and $y = 0.1$, and on their magnetotransport characterization as a…

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) strongly modulate the shallow electric potential in piezoelectric materials. In semiconductor heterostructures such as GaAs/AlGaAs, SAWs can thus be employed to transfer individual electrons between distant…

The purpose of this work is to fabricate ribbon-like InGaAs and InAsP wires embedded in InP ridge structures and investigate their transport properties. The InP ridge structures that contain the wires are selectively grown by chemical beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Granger , A. Kam , S. A. Studenikin , A. S. Sachrajda , G. C. Aers , R. L. Williams , P. J. Poole

We report a scalable molecular beam epitaxy strategy to achieve a low density of O-band electrically tunable InAs/InGaAs quantum dots (QDs) on GaAs(001) substrates. Our approach is based on a gradient deposition of InAs in the sub-ML regime…

We describe in detail a set of ideas for implementing qubits, quantum gates and quantum gate networks in a semiconductor heterostructure device. Our proposal is based on an extension of the technology used for surface acoustic wave (SAW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. H. W. Barnes , J. M. Shilton , A. M. Robinson

We demonstrate nearly-spherical, strain-free, self-assembled Ge quantum dots (QDs) fully encapsulated by AlAs, grown on (100) GaAs by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The QDs were formed without a wetting layer using a high temperature,…