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Double Quantum Wells (double + quantum_well)

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Kinds of Double Quantum Wells

  • asymmetric double quantum well
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    Selected Abstracts

    Exciton states and tunneling in semimagnetic asymmetric double quantum wells

    PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 2 2010
    S. V. Zaitsev
    Abstract Exciton level structure and interwell relaxation are studied in Cd(Mn,Mg)Te-based asymmetric double quantum wells (ADQWs) by a steady-state optical spectroscopy in magnetic fields up to B,=,10,T. The as grown heterostructures with CdTe QWs and nonmagnetic interwell CdMgTe barrier were subjected to a rapid temperature annealing to introduce Mn and Mg atoms from opposite barriers inside the QWs which results in a formation of the ADQW with completely different magnetic field behavior of the intrawell excitons. The giant Zeeman effect in the QW with magnetic Mn ions gives rise to a crossing of the ground exciton levels in two QWs at BC,,,3,6,T which is accompanied by a reverse of the interwell tunneling direction. In a single-particle picture the exciton tunneling is forbidden at B,<,1,T as supported by calculations. Experimentally, nevertheless, a very efficient interwell relaxation of excitons is found at resonant excitation in the whole magnetic field range, regardless of the tunneling direction, emphasizing importance of excitonic correlations in the interwell tunneling. At nonresonant excitation an unexpectedly slow relaxation of the ,, -polarized excitons from the nonmagnetic QW to the ,+ -polarized ground state in the semimagnetic QW is observed at B,>,BC, giving rise to a nonequilibrium distribution of excitons in ADQW. A strong dependence of the total circular polarization degree on the hh,lh splitting ,hh,lh in the nonmagnetic QW is found and attributed to the spin dependent interwell tunneling controlled by an exciton spin relaxation. Different charge-transfer mechanisms are analyzed in details and an elastic scattering due to a strong disorder is suggested as the main tunneling mechanism with the underlying influence of the valence band-mixing. [source]

    Strong coupling in artificial semimagnetic Cd(Mn,Mg)Te quantum dot molecule

    PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 15 2006
    S. V. Zaitsev
    Abstract Exciton photoluminescence in a pair of strongly coupled artificial asymmetric quantum dots (QDs) has been studied in a magnetic field up to 8 T. The QD molecules have been fabricated by a selective interdiffusion technique applied to asymmetric semimagnetic CdTe/Cd(Mg,Mn)Te double quantum wells. The lateral confinement potential within the plane, induced by the diffusion, gives rise to effective zero-dimensional exciton localization. In contrast to a typically positive exciton Lande g -factor, an exciton transition in the non-magnetic QD demonstrates a nearly zero g -factor, indicating a strong electron tunnel coupling between the QDs. The strong coupling results in the formation of an inter-QDs indirect exciton, which is a ground exciton state at high magnetic field, as found in the experiment and confirmed by our calculations. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source]

    Strong excitonic mixing effect in asymmetric double quantum wells: On the optimization of electroabsorption modulators

    PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 7 2008
    Dong Kwon Kim
    Abstract We investigate the mixing of excitons originating in different subband pairs in asymmetric double quantum wells (ADQWs) in a range of electric field where the two lowest exciton states anticross. This excitonic mixing is mainly attributed to the Coulomb interactions between subbands and the valence-subband nonparabolicity. Results show that excluding the excitonic mixing effect results in significant error in both the energies and the oscillator strengths of the excitons in an ADQW with thick barrier (3 nm). Even in an ADQW with a fairly thin barrier (1.2 nm), the error in the oscillator strengths can be substantial, although the errors in the computed energies may be tolerable. We find that including the mixing of excitons is indispensable in optimizing the structures of the asymmetric double quantum well electroabsorption modulators. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source]

    Magnetic-field-induced switching of spin injectionin Zn1,xMnxTe/ZnTe double quantum wells

    PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 4 2004
    S. Shirotori
    Abstract Magnetic-field-induced switching of the spin configuration and the resultant spin injection direction have been studied in a Zn1,xMnxTe/ZnTe double quantum well. The up- and down-spin excitons are injected from the Zn1,xMnxTe layers to the ZnTe well in weak magnetic fields, where both exciton energies in the Zn1,xMnxTe layer are higher than those in the ZnTe. Above the level crossing field, the down-spin exciton energy in the Zn1,xMnxTe layers becomes lower due to the giant Zeeman effect. Therefore, the up- and down-spin excitons are spatially separated in each layer and the down-spin exciton in the ZnTe layer is injected to the Zn1,xMnxTe. It means that the direction of the excitonic spin injection can be switched by the external field. The injection time increases from 12 psec to 300 psec toward the level crossing field of 2.5 T, since the spin-polarized excitons in those layers are associated and can cause reverse spin injection processes. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source]