Crystals (Aug 2022)

Light Hole Excitons in Strain-Coupled Bilayer Quantum Dots with Small Fine-Structure Splitting

  • Xiangjun Shang,
  • Hanqing Liu,
  • Xiangbin Su,
  • Shulun Li,
  • Huiming Hao,
  • Deyan Dai,
  • Zesheng Chen,
  • Haiqiao Ni,
  • Zhichuan Niu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst12081116
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 8
p. 1116

Abstract

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In this work, we measure polarization-resolved photoluminescence spectra from excitonic complexes in tens of single InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) at the telecom O-band with strain-coupled bilayer structure. QDs often show fine-structure splitting (FSS) ~100 μeV in uniform anisotropy and valence-band mixing of heavy holes (HH) and light holes (LH); the biaxial strain also induces LH excitons with small FSS (especially XX, hh and enhances population on LH excitons XX, XX11, X11+ and XX21+.

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