Intermediate band solar cells: Recent progress and future directions

Y Okada, NJ Ekins-Daukes, T Kita, R Tamaki… - Applied physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The possibility for increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells via sequential
absorption of photons in a single material has a relatively long history. Starting with the …

[HTML][HTML] Physics and applications of quantum dot lasers for silicon photonics

F Grillot, JC Norman, J Duan, Z Zhang, B Dong… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have enabled numerous high performance, energy
efficient, and compact technologies for optical communications, sensing, and metrology …

A gated quantum dot strongly coupled to an optical microcavity

D Najer, I Söllner, P Sekatski, V Dolique, MC Löbl… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The strong-coupling regime of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) represents the light–
matter interaction at the fully quantum level. Adding a single photon shifts the resonance …

Fine structure of neutral and charged excitons in self-assembled In (Ga) As/(Al) GaAs quantum dots

M Bayer, G Ortner, O Stern, A Kuther, AA Gorbunov… - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
The fine structure of excitons is studied by magnetophotoluminescence spectroscopy of
single self-assembled In (Ga) As/(Al) GaAs quantum dots. Both strength and orientation of …

Coupling and entangling of quantum states in quantum dot molecules

M Bayer, P Hawrylak, K Hinzer, S Fafard, M Korkusinski… - Science, 2001 - science.org
We demonstrate coupling and entangling of quantum states in a pair of vertically aligned,
self-assembled quantum dots by studying the emission of an interacting electron-hole pair …

Coherent optical spectroscopy of a strongly driven quantum dot

X Xu, B Sun, PR Berman, DG Steel, AS Bracker… - Science, 2007 - science.org
Quantum dots are typically formed from large groupings of atoms and thus may be expected
to have appreciable many-body behavior under intense optical excitation. Nonetheless, they …

Strain-compensated InAs/GaNAs quantum dots for use in high-efficiency solar cells

R Oshima, A Takata, Y Okada - Applied Physics Letters, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We have investigated GaAs-based pin quantum dot solar cells (QDSCs) with 10 up to 20
stacked layers of self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) grown by atomic hydrogen …

Quantum dot infrared photodetectors

HC Liu, M Gao, J McCaffrey, ZR Wasilewski… - Applied Physics …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
Self-assembled strained semiconductor nanostructures have been grown on GaAs
substrates to fabricate quantum dot infrared photodetectors. State-filling photoluminescence …

Atomically resolved structure of InAs quantum dots

J Marquez, L Geelhaar, K Jacobi - Applied Physics Letters, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
InAs was grown by molecular-beam epitaxy onto GaAs (001) until quantum dots (QDs)
formed. At this point, the growth was interrupted and the uncovered QDs were investigated …

Engineering electron and hole tunneling with asymmetric InAs quantum dot molecules

AS Bracker, M Scheibner, MF Doty, EA Stinaff… - Applied Physics …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Most self-assembled quantum dot molecules are intrinsically asymmetric with inequivalent
dots resulting from imperfect control of crystal growth. The authors have grown vertically …