Surface acoustic wave-driven carrier dynamics as a contact-less probe for mobilities of photogenerated carriers in undoped nanowires

Jorg B. Kinzel, Florian J.R. Schulein, Matthias Weiss, Daniel Rudolph, Gregor Koblmuller, Jonathan J. Finley, Gerhard Abstreiter, Achim Wixforth, Hubert J. Krenner

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Abstract

Radio frequency (RF) surface acoustic waves (SAW) are versatile tool to control and manipulate charge and spin excitations in semiconductor structures. We recently applied this unique, fast control mechanism to dynamically modulate the optical emission of single semiconductor nanowires (NWs) at radio frequencies exceeding 650 MHz. However, in these experiments surface recombination inhibited the SAW-transport of electrons and holes along the axis of uncapped GaAs NWs [1]. The underlying processes are strongly dependent on the acoustic amplitude and directly reflect the charge carrier mobilities in the investigated structure [2,3].

Conference

Conference2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period12/05/1316/05/13

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