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    InN nanowires: Growth and optoelectronic properties
    (Basel : MDPI AG, 2012) Calarco, R.
    An overview on InN nanowires, fabricated using either a catalyst-free molecular beam epitaxy method or a catalyst assisted chemical vapor deposition process, is provided. Differences and similarities of the nanowires prepared using the two techniques are presented. The present understanding of the growth and of the basic optical and transport properties is discussed.
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    Surface acoustic wave modulation of single photon emission from GaN/InGaN nanowire quantum dots
    (Bristol : IOP Publ., 2018) Lazić, S.; Chernysheva, E.; Hernández-Mínguez, A.; Santos, P.V.; van der Meulen, H.P.
    On-chip quantum information processing requires controllable quantum light sources that can be operated on-demand at high-speeds and with the possibility of in-situ control of the photon emission wavelength and its optical polarization properties. Here, we report on the dynamic control of the optical emission from core-shell GaN/InGaN nanowire (NW) heterostructures using radio frequency surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The SAWs are excited on the surface of a piezoelectric lithium niobate crystal equipped with a SAW delay line onto which the NWs were mechanically transferred. Luminescent quantum dot (QD)-like exciton localization centers induced by compositional fluctuations within the InGaN nanoshell were identified using stroboscopic micro-photoluminescence (micro-PL) spectroscopy. They exhibit narrow and almost fully linearly polarized emission lines in the micro-PL spectra and a pronounced anti-bunching signature of single photon emission in the photon correlation experiments. When the nanowire is perturbed by the propagating SAW, the embedded QD is periodically strained and its excitonic transitions are modulated by the acousto-mechanical coupling, giving rise to a spectral fine-tuning within a ~1.5 meV bandwidth at the acoustic frequency of ~330 MHz. This outcome can be further combined with spectral detection filtering for temporal control of the emitted photons. The effect of the SAW piezoelectric field on the QD charge population and on the optical polarization degree is also observed. The advantage of the acousto-optoelectric over other control schemes is that it allows in-situ manipulation of the optical emission properties over a wide frequency range (up to GHz frequencies).
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    Anisotropic optical properties of highly doped rutile SnO2: Valence band contributions to the Burstein-Moss shift
    (New York : American Institute of Physics, 2018) Feneberg, Martin; Lidig, Christian; White, Mark E.; Tsai, Min Y.; Speck, James S.; Bierwagen, Oliver; Galazka, Zbigniew; Goldhahn, Rüdiger
    The interband absorption of the transparent conducting semiconductor rutile stannic oxide (SnO2) is investigated as a function of increasing free electron concentration. The anisotropic dielectric functions of SnO2:Sb are determined by spectroscopic ellipsometry. The onsets of strong interband absorption found at different positions shift to higher photon energies with increasing free carrier concentration. For the electric field vector parallel to the optic axis, a low energy shoulder increases in prominence with increasing free electron concentration. We analyze the influence of different many-body effects and can model the behavior by taking into account bandgap renormalization and the Burstein-Moss effect. The latter consists of contributions from the conduction and the valence bands which can be distinguished because the nonparabolic conduction band dispersion of SnO2 is known already with high accuracy. The possible originsof the shoulder are discussed. The most likely mechanism is identified to be interband transitions at jkj > 0 from a dipole forbidden valence band.