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T1 - Pulsed magnetic fields as a probe of self-assembled semiconductor nanostructures
AU - Hayne, M
AU - Maes, J
AU - Bersier, S
AU - Henini, M
AU - Muller-Kirsch, L
AU - Heitz, R
AU - Bimberg, D
AU - Moshchalkov, V V
PY - 2004/4/30
Y1 - 2004/4/30
N2 - Pulsed magnetic fields are used to study a variety of self-assembled semiconductor nanostructures. We illustrate the power of the technique with two recent examples. In the first, we study confinement in InAs quantum dots on (1 0 0) and (3 1 1)B oriented GaAs substrates as a function of InAs coverage. We demonstrate that Stranski-Krastanow growth occurs for (1 0 0) substrates, but show that for (3 1 1)B substrates there is no such transition-rather the dots evolve from fluctuations in the wetting layer. In the second example, we investigate the Coulomb binding of 'free' electrons to holes confined to type-II GaSb/GaAs quantum dots. We find that at low laser power the electrons are repelled from the dots (by strain), but that by optical pumping the dots may be multiply charged, attracting the electrons, and more than doubling the binding energy. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
AB - Pulsed magnetic fields are used to study a variety of self-assembled semiconductor nanostructures. We illustrate the power of the technique with two recent examples. In the first, we study confinement in InAs quantum dots on (1 0 0) and (3 1 1)B oriented GaAs substrates as a function of InAs coverage. We demonstrate that Stranski-Krastanow growth occurs for (1 0 0) substrates, but show that for (3 1 1)B substrates there is no such transition-rather the dots evolve from fluctuations in the wetting layer. In the second example, we investigate the Coulomb binding of 'free' electrons to holes confined to type-II GaSb/GaAs quantum dots. We find that at low laser power the electrons are repelled from the dots (by strain), but that by optical pumping the dots may be multiply charged, attracting the electrons, and more than doubling the binding energy. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW - self-assembled quantum dots
KW - pulsed magnetic fields
KW - INP QUANTUM DOTS
KW - MAGNETOPHOTOLUMINESCENCE
KW - REINFORCEMENT
KW - CONFINEMENT
KW - DEPENDENCE
KW - ELECTRON
KW - RANGE
U2 - 10.1016/j.physb.2004.01.119
DO - 10.1016/j.physb.2004.01.119
M3 - Journal article
VL - 346-347
SP - 421
EP - 427
JO - Physica B: Condensed Matter
JF - Physica B: Condensed Matter
SN - 0921-4526
ER -