Eleven Nanometer Alignment Precision of a Plasmonic Nanoantenna with a Self-Assembled GaAs Quantum Dot
| Autor: | Hongyi Zhang, Oliver G. Schmidt, Armando Rastelli, Paola Atkinson, Markus Pfeiffer, Klas Lindfors, Bernhard Fenk, Fritz Phillipp, Harald Giessen, Markus Lippitz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Materials science
Fabrication Light Transducers Transition dipole moment Nanophotonics Physics::Optics Nanoparticle Gallium Bioengineering Nanotechnology Arsenicals Materials Testing Quantum Dots General Materials Science Particle Size Quantum Plasmon business.industry Mechanical Engineering General Chemistry Surface Plasmon Resonance Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect Condensed Matter Physics Nanocrystal Quantum dot Nanoparticles Optoelectronics business |
| Zdroj: | Nano Letters. 14:197-201 |
| ISSN: | 1530-6992 1530-6984 |
| Popis: | Plasmonics offers the opportunity of tailoring the interaction of light with single quantum emitters. However, the strong field localization of plasmons requires spatial fabrication accuracy far beyond what is required for other nanophotonic technologies. Furthermore, this accuracy has to be achieved across different fabrication processes to combine quantum emitters and plasmonics. We demonstrate a solution to this critical problem by controlled positioning of plasmonic nanoantennas with an accuracy of 11 nm next to single self-assembled GaAs semiconductor quantum dots, whose position can be determined with nanometer precision. These dots do not suffer from blinking or bleaching or from random orientation of the transition dipole moment as colloidal nanocrystals do. Our method introduces flexible fabrication of arbitrary nanostructures coupled to single-photon sources in a controllable and scalable fashion. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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