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We report on the realization of a coupled quantum dot (QD) system containing two single QDs made in two adjacent InAs nanowires. One QD (sensor QD) is used as a charge sensor to detect the charge state transition in the other QD (target…
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Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a promising material for electronic applications due to their easy fabrication and interesting semiconductor properties. Further, CQDs exhibit quantum confinement and charging effects, which may lead not only…
There has been a recent surge of interest in understanding charge transport at atomic scales. The motivations are myriad, including understanding the conductance properties of peptides measured experimentally. In this study, we propose a…
A serial triple quantum dot (TQD) integrated with a quantum dot (QD) charge sensor is realized from an InAs nanowire via a fine finger-gate technique. The complex charge states and intriguing properties of the device are studied in the…
A highly tunable linear triple quantum dot (TQD) device is realized in a single-crystalline pure-phase InAs nanowire using a local finger gate technique. The electrical measurements show that the charge stability diagram of the TQD can be…
In quantum dot (QD) electron transport experiments additional features can appear in the differential conductance $dI/dV$ that do not originate from discrete states in the QD, but rather from a modulation of the density-of-states (DOS) in…
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We investigate physics based design of colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cells using self-consistent computational modeling. The significance of band alignment engineering and optimized carrier mobility are quantitatively explored as a…
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