Magneto-photoluminescence measurements of symmetric and asymmetric CdSe/ZnSe self-assembled quantum dots

TL;DR

This study uses magneto-photoluminescence spectroscopy to analyze the excitonic structure of individual CdSe/ZnSe quantum dots, revealing their shape anisotropy, polarization properties, and magnetic response at low temperatures.

Contribution

It provides detailed single-dot spectroscopic data and insights into the polarization and magnetic characteristics of symmetric and asymmetric quantum dots, which were not previously characterized at this level.

Findings

Approximately half of the quantum dots are elliptically elongated.

Symmetric dots show unpolarized emission lines with no doublet structure.

No correlation between diamagnetic shift and g-factor was observed.

Abstract

We study the excitonic structure of CdSe/ZnSe self assembled quantum dots (SAQD) by magneto-photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. Using fixed 200 nm apertures through a metal film, we are able to probe single narrow (200 micro-eV) spectroscopic lines emitted from CdSe quantum dots at 2K. Using linear polarization analysis of these lines, we find that approximately half of the quantum dots are elliptically elongated along the [110] direction. The other half of the QDs are symmetric, with emission lines which are completely unpolarized at zero field and exhibit no doublet structure. Using an applied magnetic field, we obtain the diamagnetic shift and the g-factor for several symmetric dots and find that the variation from dot to dot is random, with no systematic dependence with emission energy. In addition, we find no correlation between the diamagnetic shift and the g-factor.