Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Precise engineering of quantum dot array coupling through their barrier widths

  • Ignacio Piquero-Zulaica,
  • Jorge Lobo-Checa,
  • Ali Sadeghi,
  • Zakaria M. Abd El-Fattah,
  • Chikahiko Mitsui,
  • Toshihiro Okamoto,
  • Rémy Pawlak,
  • Tobias Meier,
  • Andrés Arnau,
  • J. Enrique Ortega,
  • Jun Takeya,
  • Stefan Goedecker,
  • Ernst Meyer,
  • Shigeki Kawai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00872-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Arrays of quantum dots can exhibit a variety of quantum properties, being sensitive to their spacing. Here, the authors fine tune interdot coupling using hexagonal molecular networks in which the dots are separated by single or double haloaromatic compounds, structurally identical but for a single atom.