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T1 - Temperature dependence of the photoluminescence of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots in pulsed magnetic fields.
AU - Nuytten, Thomas
AU - Hayne, Manus
AU - Henini, Mohamed
AU - Moshchalkov, Victor V.
N1 - © 2008 American Physical Society
PY - 2008/3/25
Y1 - 2008/3/25
N2 - We have studied the magnetic field (< 50 T) dependence of the photoluminescence (PL) of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots as a function of temperature (T). As the temperature is raised from 4.2 up to 80 K thermal redistribution causes the PL to be increasingly dominated by dots with a lower PL energy. Magneto-PL demonstrates that these low energy dots are larger in size only in the growth direction, and not in the plane of the sample. At high temperatures (T > 100 K) a different physical phenomenon emerges: we see an anomalous decrease of the PL shift in magnetic field, which is attributed to field-enhancement of the quantum dot barrier potential. This mechanism strongly favors excitons in small dots with a weak PL shift in magnetic field, hence laterally smaller dots increasingly dominate the PL at high temperatures and high fields.
AB - We have studied the magnetic field (< 50 T) dependence of the photoluminescence (PL) of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots as a function of temperature (T). As the temperature is raised from 4.2 up to 80 K thermal redistribution causes the PL to be increasingly dominated by dots with a lower PL energy. Magneto-PL demonstrates that these low energy dots are larger in size only in the growth direction, and not in the plane of the sample. At high temperatures (T > 100 K) a different physical phenomenon emerges: we see an anomalous decrease of the PL shift in magnetic field, which is attributed to field-enhancement of the quantum dot barrier potential. This mechanism strongly favors excitons in small dots with a weak PL shift in magnetic field, hence laterally smaller dots increasingly dominate the PL at high temperatures and high fields.
KW - self-assembled quantum dots
KW - high magnetic fields
KW - temperature dependence
KW - excitons
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.115348
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.115348
M3 - Journal article
VL - 77
SP - 115348
JO - Physical review B
JF - Physical review B
SN - 1550-235X
ER -