【5月23日開催】第2回AIMRジョイントセミナー

2014年05月15日

2014年度 第2回AIMRジョイントセミナーのご案内

Title

From Superlattices to Quantum Dots:
A Perspective of Nanostructure Devices

Speaker

榊 裕之 教授
(豊田工業大学 学長、独立行政法人 物質・材料研究機構グループリーダー)

Date

2014年5月23日(金) 16:00-17:00

Venue

AIMR本館2階 セミナー室

Abstract

Thanks to advanced epitaxial technology, one can form a variety of layered nanostrcutures, such as quantum wells (QWs), superlattices (SLs), and selectively-doped heterojunctions. Two-dimen- sional (2D) carriers confined in such structures have been widely studied, because of their impor- tance both in 2D physics and advanced device applications, such as QW lasers and high-speed FETs.
To explore further potentials of nanostructures, the use of 1D and 0D electrons in quantum wires (QWRs) and quantum dots (QDs) was proposed to make such new devices [1] as planar SLs [2], QWR FETs [3], and QD lasers [4]. Though QWRs and QDs could not be initially made, these proposals spurred material scientists to develop new methods of nanostructure fabrication.
While electron-beam technique was used initially to form QWRs and QDs of around 100nm in size, several new methods have been developed to form 10nm-scale QWRs and/or QDs; they include the overgrowth of an n-AlGaAs on the cleaved edge of GaAs QWs and the facet-selective growth on patterned substrates [1]. It has been also found that 10nm-scale QDs can be formed by self-assem- bled Stranski-Krastanow (SK) growth on lattice-mismatched substrates and also by the droplet epitaxy, in which metallic droplets are formed and then transformed to QDs of intermetallic com- pounds [1]. The SK growth has been used to make QD devices, such as QD lasers of excellent tem- perature stability [5], single-photon emitters, and interband /intersubband QD photodectors [1].
It has been also shown that 10nm-scale QWRs and related nanostructures can be formed by such methods as the stacking of multiple SK QDs and the vapor-liquid-solid growth of nanowires on catalytic nanoparticles; these methods have been successfully used to make various QWR/QD based devices, such as QWR FETs, single-electron transistors, LEDs, photodetectors and so on. In this talk, we review recent advances in QD/QWR growth [6] and discuss their device prospects.

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