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Superconducting and Normal State Properties of Heavily Hole-Doped Diamond
We report measurements of the specific heat, Hall effect, upper critical
field and resistivity on bulk, B-doped diamond prepared by reacting amorphous B
and graphite under high-pressure/high-temperature conditions. These experiments
establish unambiguous evidence for bulk superconductivity and provide a
consistent set of materials parameters that favor a conventional, weak coupling
electron-phonon interpretation of the superconducting mechanism at high hole
doping.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Optically tunable nuclear magnetic resonance in a single quantum dot
We report optically detected nuclear magnetic resonance (ODNMR) measurements on small ensembles of nuclear spins in single GaAs quantum dots. Using ODNMR we make direct measurements of the inhomogeneous Knight field from a photoexcited electron which acts on the nuclei in the dot. The resulting shifts of the NMR peak can be optically controlled by varying the electron occupancy and its spin orientation, and lead to strongly asymmetric line shapes at high optical excitation. The all-optical control of the NMR line shape will enable position-selective control of small groups of nuclear spins inside a dot
Size-dependent bandgap and particle size distribution of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals
A new analytical expression for the size-dependent bandgap of colloidal
semiconductor nanocrystals is proposed within the framework of the finite-depth
square-well effective mass approximation in order to provide a quantitative
description of the quantum confinement effect. This allows one to convert
optical spectroscopic data (photoluminescence spectrum and absorbance edge)
into accurate estimates for the particle size distributions of colloidal
systems even if the traditional effective mass model is expected to fail, which
occurs typically for very small particles belonging to the so-called strong
confinement limit. By applying the reported theoretical methodologies to CdTe
nanocrystals synthesized through wet chemical routes, size distributions are
inferred and compared directly to those obtained from atomic force microscopy
and transmission electron microscopy. This analysis can be used as a
complementary tool for the characterization of nanocrystal samples of many
other systems such as the II-VI and III-V semiconductor materials.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Superconductivity in silicon nanostructures
We present the findings of the superconductivity observed in the silicon
nanostructures prepared by short time diffusion of boron on the n-type Si(100)
surface. These Si-based nanostructures represent the p-type ultra-narrow
self-assembled silicon quantum wells, 2nm, confined by the delta - barriers
heavily doped with boron, 3nm. The EPR and the thermo-emf studies show that the
delta - barriers appear to consist of the trigonal dipole centres, which are
caused by the negative-U reconstruction of the shallow boron acceptors. Using
the CV and thermo-emf techniques, the transport of two-dimensional holes inside
SQW is demonstrated to be accompanied by single-hole tunneling through these
negative-U centres that results in the superconductivity of the delta -
barriers. The values of the correlation gaps obtained from these measurements
are in a good agreement with the data derived from the temperature and magnetic
field dependencies of the magnetic susceptibility, which reveal a strong
diamagnetism and additionally identify the superconductor gap value.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, presented at the 4th International Conference on
Vortex Matter in Superconductors, Crete, Greece, September 3-9, 200
Biexciton recombination rates in self-assembled quantum dots
The radiative recombination rates of interacting electron-hole pairs in a
quantum dot are strongly affected by quantum correlations among electrons and
holes in the dot. Recent measurements of the biexciton recombination rate in
single self-assembled quantum dots have found values spanning from two times
the single exciton recombination rate to values well below the exciton decay
rate. In this paper, a Feynman path-integral formulation is developed to
calculate recombination rates including thermal and many-body effects. Using
real-space Monte Carlo integration, the path-integral expressions for realistic
three-dimensional models of InGaAs/GaAs, CdSe/ZnSe, and InP/InGaP dots are
evaluated, including anisotropic effective masses. Depending on size, radiative
rates of typical dots lie in the regime between strong and intermediate
confinement. The results compare favorably to recent experiments and
calculations on related dot systems. Configuration interaction calculations
using uncorrelated basis sets are found to be severely limited in calculating
decay rates.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
Interface optical phonons in spheroidal dots: Raman selection rules
The contribution of interface phonons to the first order Raman scattering in
nanocrystals with non spherical geometry is analyzed. Interface optical phonons
in the spheroidal geometry are discussed and the corresponding Frohlich-like
electron-phonon interaction is reported in the framework of the dielectric
continuum approach. It is shown that the interface phonon modes are strongly
dependent on the nanocrystal geometry, particularly on the ellipsoid's
semi-axis ratio. The new Raman selection rules have revealed that solely
interface phonon modes with even angular momentum are allowed to contribute to
the first order phonon-assisted scattering of light. On this basis we are able
to give an explanation for the observed low frequency shoulders present in the
Raman cross-section of several II-VI semiconductor nanostructures.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
1D Exciton Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanorods
We have theoretically shown that optical properties of semiconductor nanorods
are controlled by 1D excitons. The theory, which takes into account anisotropy
of spacial and dielectric confinement, describes size dependence of interband
optical transitions, exciton binding energies. We have demonstrated that the
fine structure of the ground exciton state explains the linear polarization of
photoluminescence. Our results are in good agreement with the measurements in
CdSe nanorods
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