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Local Strain Effects in Near-Field Spectra of Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2011

A. M. Mintairov ,
P. A. Blagnov ,
O. V. Kovalenkov ,
C. Li ,
J. L. Merz ,
S. Oktyabrsky ,
K. Sun ,
V. Tokranov ,
A. S. Vlasov  and
D. A. Vinokurov
A. M. Mintairov
Affiliation:
Electrical Engineering Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
P. A. Blagnov
Affiliation:
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, RAS, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
O. V. Kovalenkov
Affiliation:
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, RAS, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
C. Li
Affiliation:
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
J. L. Merz
Affiliation:
Electrical Engineering Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
S. Oktyabrsky
Affiliation:
UAlbany Inst. for Materials University at Albany-SUNY, 251 Fuller Rd. Albany, NY 12203
K. Sun
Affiliation:
Electrical Engineering Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
V. Tokranov
Affiliation:
UAlbany Inst. for Materials University at Albany-SUNY, 251 Fuller Rd. Albany, NY 12203
A. S. Vlasov
Affiliation:
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, RAS, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
D. A. Vinokurov
Affiliation:
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, RAS, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Abstract

Experimental and theoretical investigations of high-energy shifts of single InAs, InGaAs, InAlAs and InP quantum dot (QD) emission lines induced by contact pressure exerted by a near-field optical fiber tip are reported. “Pressure” coefficients of 0.65–3.5 meV/nm have been measured for ground state emission lines in agreement with numerical calculations. We show that the observed increase of the tip-induced energy shift with increasing aperture diameter is caused by a decrease of the uniaxial strain component. We also report the effect of emission instability of single QD emission intensity under tip-induced pressure.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 737 , 2002 , E7.4
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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