Abstract

The effect of locally introducing small clusters of interstitial Manganese ions near both IF-QDs and InAs/GaAs QDs embedded within GaAs/AlAs/GaMnAs pin-RTDs has been studied. Experiments and simulations show that the microscopic random fluctuations in the electric field generated by these ions can be as strong as 200 kV/cm (in the growth direction) and 40 kV/cm (in the growth plane) in the plane of the QD. The resulting shifts in the quantum confined Stark effect of the weakly confined IF-QDs have been used to optically probe such nanoscale potential fluctuations [1]. The local introduction of these charges by focused laser assisted diffusion near InAs/GaAs-QDs have demonstrated site-specific, electrically driven, bright few QD-nano-LEDs. We have also been able to locally manipulate carrier relaxation processes from excited wetting layer states into the InAs/GaAs QD by the nanoscale electrostatic preferential current channelling phenomena (or nanoLED) previously reported in such pin-RTD structures [2,3].

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