УДК: 539.23

Electroabsorption of a semiconductor nanocuboid

Ponomareva, I.O., Leonov, M.Y., Kosenkov, A.G., Rukhlenko, I.D., Baranov, A.V., Fedorov, A.V.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Пономарёва И.О., Леонов М.Ю., Косенков А.Г., Рухленко И.Д., Баранов А.В., Фёдоров А.В. Электропоглощение полупроводникового нанокубоида // Оптический журнал. 2015. Т. 82. № 11. С. 43–49.

Ponomareva I.O., Leonov M.Yu., Kosenkov A.G., Rukhlenko I.D., Baranov A.V., Federov A.V. Electroabsorption of a semiconductor nanocuboid [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2015. V. 82. № 11. P. 43–49.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

I. O. Ponomareva, M. Yu. Leonov, A. G. Kosenkov, I. D. Rukhlenko, A. V. Baranov, and A. V. Fedorov, "Electroabsorption of a semiconductor nanocuboid," Journal of Optical Technology. 82(11), 749-754 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.82.000749

Abstract:

This paper is devoted to the development of a universal physical model of the electron subsystem of a semiconductor nanocrystal in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped—a nanocuboid—lying in an external homogeneous electric field. The electroabsorption of a nanocuboid is computed in terms of the proposed model, and a comparative analysis of the electroabsorption of nanocrystals with various ratios of the sizes of the edges: quantum dots, nanorods, and nanoplates is carried out. It is shown that nanoplates are the most promising for creating electrooptic devices for photonics.

Keywords:

semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum dots, nanorods, nanoplates, Stark effect, electroabsorption

Acknowledgements:

This work was carried out with the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Grant 14.B25.31.0002 and State Job No. 3.17.2014/K). The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation is also supporting M. Yu. Leonov by means of a stipend of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and graduate students (2013–15).

OCIS codes: 160.4236, 300.6500

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