Transport and optical effects in self-assembled quantum dot devicesTools Brown, Adam L. (2009) Transport and optical effects in self-assembled quantum dot devices. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
AbstractThis thesis describes a theoretical and numerical study of quantum transport and optical effects through an array of self-assembled InAs quantum dots grown in the intrinsic region of a GaAs p-i-n junction. We present a numerical simulation of this system and compare the generated transport and elecroluminescence results to recent experimental data. The simulation first calculates the quantum tunnelling, excitonic recombination, and relaxation rates within the dots, and then uses a stochastic model to simulate carriers entering and leaving the array. We highlight a number of features within the simulation, which shed light on similar features seen in experimental data. In particular, we demonstrate the importance of including the effects of the Coulomb interactions between the carriers, as this is shown be necessary for the simulated and experimental results to match closely. We also investigate a model of Auger processes which is shown to produce up-conversion luminescence, and study the effect of varying the location of the array within the intrinsic region.
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