Book Description
This paper gives an overview of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth of and the optical properties of Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) quantum dots grown on Zinc Telluride (ZnTe) by self-assembly. It is shown that quantum dots in this material system can be obtained either by depositing CdTe at a high substrate temperature or by subjecting CdTe layer to a healing process, up to 70 seconds long before its capping or, eventually, by applying these two methods simultaneously. Moreover, it is found that one can also use the atomic layer epitaxy method to achieve the formation. From optical measurements performed on large quantum dot ensembles it is found that the quantum dot emission is much broader than that of quantum wells, and that it is observable up to much higher temperatures, which indicates strong exciton localization. The latter is also evidenced by an insensitivity of the decay time of the exciton recombination (^3O0 ps) to the temperature. From the presence of a second, very long decay time (^5 ns) and from disappearance of the sharp lines related to recombination in single dots, the acoustic phonon scattering of excitons is found to play an important role in these quantum dot structures. From a magnetic field dependence of the single dot emission energy, the exciton effective g-factor and spatial extension of the exciton wave function are deduced to be equal to -3 and 3 nanometers, respectively. Both the g-factor and the value of the diamagnetic shift are found to be independent of the energy of the quantum dot emission at Beta=Omicron Tau and of the in-plane symmetry of its potential. (11 figures, 35 refs.).
