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Optical spin polarization in double charged InAs self‐assembled quantum dots
Author(s) -
Kalevich V. K.,
Merkulov I. A.,
Shiryaev A. Yu.,
Kavokin K. V.,
Ikezawa M.,
Okuno T.,
Brunkov P. N.,
Zhukov A. E.,
Ustinov V. M.,
Masumoto Y.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
physica status solidi (a)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.532
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1862-6319
pISSN - 1862-6300
DOI - 10.1002/pssa.200460324
Subject(s) - quantum dot , polarization (electrochemistry) , excitation , spin polarization , condensed matter physics , electron , circular polarization , magnetic field , photoluminescence , exciton , physics , faraday cage , atomic physics , chemistry , optoelectronics , quantum mechanics
The work is an experimental study of optical spin polarization in InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) with 2 resident electrons or holes. A capture of a photo‐generated electron‐hole pair into such a QD creates a negative or positive tetron (double‐charged exciton). Spin polarization was registered by the circular polarization of the QD photoluminescence (PL). The spin state was found to differ radically in the dots with opposite in sign charge. Particularly, under excitation in a GaAs barrier, the ground state PL polarization is negative (relative to the polarization of an exciting light) in the negatively charged QDs and positive in the positively charged QDs. With increasing excitation intensity, the negative polarization rises from zero up to a saturation level, while the positive polarization decreases. The negative polarization increases in weak magnetic fields applied in Faraday geometry, but strong fields suppress it. The positive polarization always increases as a function of magnetic field. We propose a theoretical model that qualitatively explains the experimental results. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)