Electro-elastic tuning of single particles in individual self-assembled quantum dots.

Kuklewicz, Christopher E; Malein, Ralph N E; Petroff, Pierre M; Gerardot, Brian D · Nano Lett · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We investigate the effect of uniaxial stress on InGaAs quantum dots in a charge tunable device. Using Coulomb blockade and photoluminescence, we observe that significant tuning of single particle energies (≈-0.22 meV/MPa) leads to variable tuning of exciton energies (+18 to -0.9 μeV/MPa) under tensile stress. Modest tuning of the permanent dipole, Coulomb interaction and fine-structure splitting energies is also measured. We exploit the variable exciton response to tune multiple quantum dots on the same chip into resonance.