Temperature-dependent linewidth of charged excitons in semiconductor quantum dots: Strongly broadened ground state transitions due to acoustic phonon scattering

We report temperature-dependent photoluminescence on neutral and charged excitons in individual InAs quantum dots. We find narrow emission lines for temperatures up to 30 K for exciton transitions where only the electron ground state is occupied. In contrast, for doubly charged excitons where the ex...

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Autores: Urbaszek, B., McGhee, E. J., Krüger, M., Warburton, Richard J., Karrai, Khaled, Amand, T., Gerardot, B. D., Petroff, Pierre M., García Martínez, Jorge Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/24305
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/24305
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Excitons
Semiconductor quantum dots
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Sumario:We report temperature-dependent photoluminescence on neutral and charged excitons in individual InAs quantum dots. We find narrow emission lines for temperatures up to 30 K for exciton transitions where only the electron ground state is occupied. In contrast, for doubly charged excitons where the excited electron state is occupied, we observe a drastic increase of the ground state transition linewidth even at 30 K. We interpret this as evidence that the excited electron state is degenerate with the low energy tail of continuum states.