AIP Advances (Nov 2014)

Photoluminescence studies of individual and few GaSb/GaAs quantum rings

  • M. P. Young,
  • C. S. Woodhead,
  • J. Roberts,
  • Y. J. Noori,
  • M. T. Noble,
  • A. Krier,
  • E. P. Smakman,
  • P. M. Koenraad,
  • M. Hayne,
  • R. J. Young

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902177
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 11
pp. 117127 – 117127-6

Abstract

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We present optical studies of individual and few GaSb quantum rings embedded in a GaAs matrix. Contrary to expectation for type-II confinement, we measure rich spectra containing sharp lines. These lines originate from excitonic recombination and are observed to have resolution-limited full-width at half maximum of 200 μeV. The detail provided by these measurements allows the characteristic type-II blueshift, observed with increasing excitation power, to be studied at the level of individual nanostructures. These findings are in agreement with hole-charging being the origin of the observed blueshift.