22 research outputs found
Tunable magnetic exchange interactions in manganese-doped inverted core/shell ZnSe/CdSe nanocrystals
Magnetic doping of semiconductor nanostructures is actively pursued for
applications in magnetic memory and spin-based electronics. Central to these
efforts is a drive to control the interaction strength between carriers
(electrons and holes) and the embedded magnetic atoms. In this respect,
colloidal nanocrystal heterostructures provide great flexibility via
growth-controlled `engineering' of electron and hole wavefunctions within
individual nanocrystals. Here we demonstrate a widely tunable magnetic sp-d
exchange interaction between electron-hole excitations (excitons) and
paramagnetic manganese ions using `inverted' core-shell nanocrystals composed
of Mn-doped ZnSe cores overcoated with undoped shells of narrower-gap CdSe.
Magnetic circular dichroism studies reveal giant Zeeman spin splittings of the
band-edge exciton that, surprisingly, are tunable in both magnitude and sign.
Effective exciton g-factors are controllably tuned from -200 to +30 solely by
increasing the CdSe shell thickness, demonstrating that strong quantum
confinement and wavefunction engineering in heterostructured nanocrystal
materials can be utilized to manipulate carrier-Mn wavefunction overlap and the
sp-d exchange parameters themselves.Comment: To appear in Nature Materials; 18 pages, 4 figures + Supp. Inf
Effect of Magnetic Polaron Formation on the Exciton Mobility Edge in CdMnTe
We study the exciton localization in the semimagnetic semiconductor CdMnTe by selective excitation of the exciton photoluminescence. We show that the energy position of the effective mobility edge for excitons is subject to the competition between nonmagnetic and magnetic localization due to the magnetic polaron formation. External magnetic fields affect this competition by suppressing the polaron formation, which shifts the mobility edge
Exciton Magnetic Polaron Features in Photoluminescence Excitation Spectra of CdTe/(CdMn)Te Quantum Wells with High Mn Contents
Exciton magnetic polarons are studied in CdTe/CdMnTe (0.4 ≤ x ≤ 0.8) quantum wells. The magnetic polaron formation leads to the appearance of an additional line in the photoluminescence excitation spectra, which can be employed to determine the Zeeman splittings more exactly than by using the free exciton peak. We find an overall increase in the polaron energy with increasing x in the whole range of Mn contents studied
CdMnTe Parabolic Quantum Wells
We report on the growth and optical studies of II-VI semiconductor parabolic quantum wells made of CdMnTe for a broad range of quantum well widths and Mn molar fractions x. Photoluminescence excitation spectra revealed several series of peaks equidistant in energy associated with interband optical transitions between harmonic oscillator levels. From the analysis of the spectra the valence band offset Q = 0.44±0.1 was determined for the CdTe/CdMnTe system