Lasing in ultra-narrow emission from GaAs quantum dots coupled with a two-dimensional layer.
Summary of "Lasing in ultra-narrow emission from GaAs quantum dots coupled with a two-dimensional layer."
We report electrically injected lasing in GaAs quantum dots (QDs) grown on GaAs(001) by droplet epitaxy. High-quality GaAs QDs with superior uniformity are formed using improved growth techniques involving the insertion of a two-dimensional layer, control of the As flux for GaAs crystallization, and thin AlGaAs layer capping with high-temperature annealing. The QDs show ultra-narrow luminescence with a linewidth of 20 meV. Ground-state lasing from a laser diode containing fivefold-stacked QD layers is observed at low temperature under pulsed operation.
Affiliation
Quantum Dot Research Center, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Nanotechnology
ISSN: 1361-6528
Pages: 335201
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21775803
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/22/33/335201
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Nanometer-sized particles that are nanoscale in three dimensions. They include nanocrystaline materials; NANOCAPSULES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; DENDRIMERS, and QUANTUM DOTS. The uses of nanoparticles include DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS and cancer targeting and imaging.
Positron-emission Tomography
An imaging technique using compounds labelled with short-lived positron-emitting radionuclides (such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13, oxygen-15 and fluorine-18) to measure cell metabolism. It has been useful in study of soft tissues such as CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; and brain. SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY is closely related to positron emission tomography, but uses isotopes with longer half-lives and resolution is lower.
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