Designed emitter states in resonant tunneling through quantum dots
Author
Summary, in English
Resonant tunneling through a single layer of self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) is compared to tunneling through two layers of vertically aligned (stacked) dots. The difference can be viewed as going from a two-dimensional emitter to a zero-dimensional emitter. The temperature dependence of current peaks originating in tunneling through individual QDs and individual stacks is used to clarify this point. In addition, we show that the statistical size distribution of self-assembled quantum dots causing the inhomogeneous broadening in luminescence experiments can be analyzed in a resonant tunneling experiment. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
Publishing year
2002
Language
English
Pages
2681-2683
Publication/Series
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
80
Issue
15
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Topic
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0003-6951