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Temperature-Enhanced Exciton Emission from GaAs Cone-Shell Quantum Dots
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: Received: 16 November 2023 / Approved: 17 November 2023 / Online: 17 November 2023 (05:17:58 CET)
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Heyn, C.; Ranasinghe, L.; Deneke, K.; Alshaikh, A.; Blick, R.H. Temperature-Enhanced Exciton Emission from GaAs Cone–Shell Quantum Dots. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 3121. Heyn, C.; Ranasinghe, L.; Deneke, K.; Alshaikh, A.; Blick, R.H. Temperature-Enhanced Exciton Emission from GaAs Cone–Shell Quantum Dots. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 3121.
Abstract
The temperature-dependent intensities of the exciton (X) and biexciton (XX) peaks from single GaAs cone-shell quantum dots (QDs) are studied with micro photoluminescence (PL) at varied excitation power and QD size. The QDs are fabricated by filling of self-assembled nanoholes, which are drilled in an AlGaAs barrier by local droplet etching (LDE) during molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). This method allows the fabrication of strain-free QDs with sizes precisely controlled by the amount of material deposited for hole filling. Starting from the base temperature T = 3.2 K of the cryostat, single-dot PL measurements demonstrate a strong enhancement of the exciton emission up to a factor of five with increasing T. Both, the maximum exciton intensity and the temperature Tx,max of the maximum intensity depend on excitation power and dot size. At an elevated excitation power, Tx,max becomes larger than 30 K. This allows an operation using an inexpensive and compact Stirling cryocooler. Above Tx,max, the exciton intensity decreases strongly up to its disappearance. The experimental data are quantitatively reproduced by a model which considers the competing processes of exciton generation, annihilation, and recombination. Exciton generation in the QDs is given by the sum of direct excitation in the dot plus additional bulk excitons diffusing from the barrier layers into the dot. The thermally-driven bulk-exciton diffusion from the barriers causes the temperature enhancement of the exciton emission. Above Tx,max, the intensity decreases due to exciton annihilation processes. In comparison to the exciton, the biexciton intensity shows an only very weak enhancement, which is attributed to more efficient annihilation processes.
Keywords
Quantum dot; photoluminescence; exciton; biexciton; power dependence; temperature dependence
Subject
Physical Sciences, Quantum Science and Technology
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