405 research outputs found
Tunneling Between Multimode Stacked Quantum Wires
Tunneling between vertically stacked quantum wires has been investigated. The wires
are assumed to have the dimension perpendicular to the tunneling barrier much smaller
than the other transverse dimension, so that only the lowest mode in such direction is to
be taken into account, while many modes in the other direction are filled. A model with
hard-wall confinement has been used for the investigation of the transport problem, and
the tunneling conductance has been computed, via a recursive Green's functions
procedure
Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers and quantum dot lasers
The use of cavity to manipulate photon emission of quantum dots (QDs) has
been opening unprecedented opportunities for realizing quantum functional
nanophotonic devices and also quantum information devices. In particular, in
the field of semiconductor lasers, QDs were introduced as a superior
alternative to quantum wells to suppress the temperature dependence of the
threshold current in vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers
(VECSELs). In this work, a review of properties and development of
semiconductor VECSEL devices and QD laser devices is given. Based on the
features of VECSEL devices, the main emphasis is put on the recent development
of technological approach on semiconductor QD VECSELs. Then, from the viewpoint
of both single QD nanolaser and cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), a
single-QD-cavity system resulting from the strong coupling of QD cavity is
presented. A difference of this review from the other existing works on
semiconductor VECSEL devices is that we will cover both the fundamental aspects
and technological approaches of QD VECSEL devices. And lastly, the presented
review here has provided a deep insight into useful guideline for the
development of QD VECSEL technology and future quantum functional nanophotonic
devices and monolithic photonic integrated circuits (MPhICs).Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:0904.369
Designing a Method for Measuring Magnetoresistance of Nanostructures
The ultimate intent of this research program is to produce nanosized magnetic tunneling junctions, and to study the physical properties of such devices. The physical phenomena of nanosized tunneling junctions are significantly different than that of currently popular micro-sized junctions. There is a considerable amount of work that must be done prior to producing these new junctions to ensure that good measurements can be carried out once the structures have been built. This thesis describes the efforts taken to design a measurement platform that will accurately measure tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in nanosized Magneto-tunneling Junctions (MTJ). The testing done with this system at various stages throughout the design and testing process confirm the expectations for the performance of the system. Voltage-current measurements can be performed on objects ranging from a few nanometers in size to micrometer sized. Traditional micro-sized MTJs have not been excluded in this design
Designing a Method for Measuring Magnetoresistance of Nanostructures
The ultimate intent of this research program is to produce nanosized magnetic tunneling junctions, and to study the physical properties of such devices. The physical phenomena of nanosized tunneling junctions are significantly different than that of currently popular micro-sized junctions. There is a considerable amount of work that must be done prior to producing these new junctions to ensure that good measurements can be carried out once the structures have been built. This thesis describes the efforts taken to design a measurement platform that will accurately measure tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in nanosized Magneto-tunneling Junctions (MTJ). The testing done with this system at various stages throughout the design and testing process confirm the expectations for the performance of the system. Voltage-current measurements can be performed on objects ranging from a few nanometers in size to micrometer sized. Traditional micro-sized MTJs have not been excluded in this design
Charge transport modulation by a redox supramolecular spin-filtering chiral crystal
The chirality induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect is a fascinating
phenomena correlating molecular structure with electron spin-polarisation in
excited state measurements. Experimental procedures to quantify the
spin-filtering magnitude relies generally on averaging data sets, especially
those from magnetic field dependent conductive-AFM. We investigate the
underlying observed disorder in the IV spectra and the origin of spikes
superimposed. We demonstrate and explain that a dynamic, voltage sweep rate
dependent, phenomena can give rise to complex IV curves for chiral crystals of
coronene bisimide. The redox group, able to capture localized charge states,
acts as an impurity state interfering with a continuum, giving rise to Fano
resonances. We introduce a novel mechanism for the dynamic transport which
might also provide insight into the role of spin-polarization. Crucially,
interference between charge localisation and delocalisation during transport
may be important properties into understanding the CISS phenomena
Symmetry and Asymmetry in Quasicrystals or Amorphous Materials
About forty years after its discovery, it is still common to read in the literature that quasicrystals (QCs) occupy an intermediate position between amorphous materials and periodic crystals. However, QCs exhibit high-quality diffraction patterns containing a collection of discrete Bragg reflections at variance with amorphous phases. Accordingly, these materials must be properly regarded as long-range ordered materials with a symmetry incompatible with translation invariance. This misleading conceptual status can probably arise from the use of notions borrowed from the amorphous solids framework (such us tunneling states, weak interference effects, variable range hopping, or spin glass) in order to explain certain physical properties observed in QCs. On the other hand, the absence of a general, full-fledged theory of quasiperiodic systems certainly makes it difficult to clearly distinguish the features related to short-range order atomic arrangements from those stemming from long-range order correlations. The contributions collected in this book aim at gaining a deeper understanding on the relationship between the underlying structural order and the resulting physical properties in several illustrative aperiodic systems, including the border line between QCs and related complex metallic alloys, hierarchical superlattices, electrical transmission lines, nucleic acid sequences, photonic quasicrystals, and optical devices based on aperiodic order designs
Electron-correlation driven capture and release in double quantum dots
We recently predicted that the interatomic Coulombic electron capture (ICEC)
process, a long-range electron correlation driven capture process, is
achievable in gated double quantum dots (DQDs). In ICEC an incoming electron is
captured by one QD and the excess energy is used to remove an electron from the
neighboring QD. In this work we present systematic full three-dimensional
electron dynamics calculations in quasi-one dimensional model potentials that
allow for a detailed understanding of the connection between the DQD geometry
and the reaction probability for the ICEC process. We derive an effective
one-dimensional approach and show that its results compare very well with those
obtained using the full three-dimensional calculations. This approach
substantially reduces the computation times. The investigation of the
electronic structure for various DQD geometries for which the ICEC process can
take place clarify the origin of its remarkably high probability in the
presence of two-electron resonances
Challenges in simulating light-induced processes in DNA
© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In this contribution, we give a perspective on the main challenges in performing theoretical simulations of photoinduced phenomena within DNA and its molecular building blocks. We distinguish the different tasks that should be involved in the simulation of a complete DNA strand subject to UV irradiation: (i) stationary quantum chemical computations; (ii) the explicit description of the initial excitation of DNA with light; (iii) modeling the nonadiabatic excited state dynamics; (iv) simulation of the detected experimental observable; and (v) the subsequent analysis of the respective results. We succinctly describe the methods that are currently employed in each of these steps. While for each of them, there are different approaches with different degrees of accuracy, no feasible method exists to tackle all problems at once. Depending on the technique or combination of several ones, it can be problematic to describe the stacking of nucleobases, bond breaking and formation, quantum interferences and tunneling or even simply to characterize the involved wavefunctions. It is therefore argued that more method development and/or the combination of different techniques are urgently required. It is essential also to exercise these new developments in further studies on DNA and subsystems thereof, ideally comprising simulations of all of the different components that occur in the corresponding experiments
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