Optical transition of the charged excitons in InAs single quantum dots

Abstract

Quantum dot (QD) samples studied in the experiment are grown by molecular-beam epitaxy on semi-insulating GaAs substrates. The photoluminescences (PLs) of the excitons in a single QD are measured at 5 K. The PL spectra of the excitons, biexcitons and charged excitons are identified by measuring and analyzing both PL peaks of the circular and linear polarization and power-dependent PL properties. The charged exciton emissions can be tuned by applying a bias voltage, i.e., negatively charged excitons are changed into positively charged excitons by changing the voltage from 1.0 to -1.0 V. It is shown that the electron-spin will slowly relax compared with that of the hole when they relax from wetting layer into the QD.