Optical orientation and alignment of excitons in direct and indirect band gap (In,Al)As/AlAs quantum dots with type-I band alignment

Autor: Petr Klenovský, J. Rautert, S. V. Nekrasov, Dmitri R. Yakovlev, Manfred Bayer, Yu. G. Kusrayev, T. S. Shamirzaev
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
OPTICAL ORIENTATION
Materials science
Exciton
FOS: Physical sciences
Physics::Optics
ENERGY GAP
SPIN FLUCTUATIONS
ANISOTROPIC EXCHANGE SPLITTING
02 engineering and technology
Electron
Spin structure
01 natural sciences
Molecular physics
Condensed Matter::Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
0103 physical sciences
TYPE I BAND ALIGNMENTS
010306 general physics
Hyperfine structure
ANISOTROPY
Quantum Physics
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
OPTICAL ALIGNMENTS
Condensed Matter::Other
EXCITONS
EXCITON FINE STRUCTURE
Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Polarization (waves)
Magnetic field
HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS
NANOCRYSTALS
EXCITON SPIN DYNAMICS
Quantum dot
MODEL CALCULATIONS
Direct and indirect band gaps
SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS
Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
0210 nano-technology
Zdroj: Phys. Rev. B
Physical Review B
ISSN: 2469-9969
2469-9950
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.99.195411
Popis: The spin structure and spin dynamics of excitons in an ensemble of (In,Al)As/AlAs quantum dots (QDs) with type-I band alignment, containing both direct and indirect band gap dots, are studied. Time-resolved and spectral selective techniques are used to distinguish between the direct and indirect QDs. The exciton fine structure is studied by means of optical alignment and optical orientation techniques in magnetic fields applied in the Faraday or Voigt geometries. A drastic difference in emission polarization is found for the excitons in the direct QDs involving a Γ-valley electron and the excitons in the indirect QDs contributed by an X-valley electron. We show that in the direct QDs the exciton spin dynamics is controlled by the anisotropic exchange splitting, while in the indirect QDs it is determined by the hyperfine interaction with nuclear field fluctuations. The anisotropic exchange splitting is determined for the direct QD excitons and compared with model calculations. © 2019 American Physical Society.
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