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13 - Optical spectroscopy of InAs/GaAs quantum dots doped with a single Mn atom

from Part IV - Quantum dot nano-laboratory: magnetic ions and nuclear spins in a dot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2012

By
O. Krebs  and
A. Lemaître
Edited by
Alexander Tartakovskii
O. Krebs
Affiliation:
CNRS-Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, France
A. Lemaître
Affiliation:
CNRS-Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, France
Alexander Tartakovskii
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Summary

Introduction

Most of the current semiconductor devices rely on intentional, density- and spatially controlled doping with impurities. Dopants of donor and acceptor type enable both to change locally the electronic properties (conductivity, chemical potential, built-in electric field, etc.) and to tune these properties by metallic gates. Using such doping modulation has been shown to be very fruitful in the past two decades to fabricate and investigate semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) in the Coulomb blockade regime where the number of resident charges can be deterministically tuned one by one. In parallel, incorporating magnetic dopants in a semiconductor matrix has long been motivated by the possibility of inducing new properties and developing new functionalities. Observation of ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors like Ga1–xMnxAs (with x in the range of a few percent) by the end of the 1990s has more specifically stimulated a lot of work [14]. Even though the Curie temperature of GaMnAs below ˜ 200K is likely to limit its potential use for applications, this compound still behaves like an ideal system to investigate the setup and control of Zener-type ferromagnetism in semiconductors, where the Mn atoms incorporated in the GaAs matrix provide both localized magnetic moments and free carriers. Combining the properties of quantum dots with those induced by magnetic doping is naturally an attractive track to explore, both to tailor new spin-based quantum properties and to investigate the fundamental interactions between carriers and magnetic impurities at the microscopic level. In this perspective, the limiting case of a single magnetic atom in a single quantum dot is obviously the elementary system of highest interest.

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Quantum Dots
Optics, Electron Transport and Future Applications
 , pp. 221 - 236
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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