Single InAs quantum dot grown at the junction of branched gold-free GaAs nanowire.

Yu, Ying; Li, Mi-Feng; He, Ji-Fang; He, Yu-Ming; Wei, Yu-Jia; He, Yu; Zha, Guo-Wei; Shang, Xiang-Jun et al. · Nano Lett · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We report a new type of single InAs quantum dot (QD) embedded at the junction of gold-free branched GaAs/AlGaAs nanowire (NW) grown on silicon substrate. The photoluminescence intensity of such QD is ~20 times stronger than that from randomly distributed QD grown on the facet of straight NW. Sharp excitonic emission is observed at 4.2 K with a line width of 101 μeV and a vanishing two-photon emission probability of g(2)(0) = 0.031(2). This new nanostructure may open new ways for designing novel quantum optoelectronic devices.

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