Seminars and Colloquia
Physics
Some interesting optical manifestations in quantum confined excitonic systems
Mon, Sep 17, 2018,
02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, main buidling
Dr. Bidisha Roy
Walter Schottky Insititute,
Technical University of Munich,
Germany
Abstract:
Optical and magneto-optical studies of excitons in a cylindrically stacked system of semiconductor quantum dots with type-II band alignment will be discussed in the first part, particularly addressing the intriguing observation of excitonic Aharonov- Bohm (AB) effect in these systems which gets revealed through magneto-photoluminescence (PL) emission. The AB signature indicated presence of built-in electric field in the system and a detailed spectral analysis of this otherwise purely quantum mechanical effect could lead to the determination of lateral excitonic size with up to sub-nanometer precision. In this light, I will also discuss the decoherence mechanisms in such quantum confined systems.
In a second part, we will look at a plasmonic- semiconductor hybrid system of interest that enabled the tuning and manipulation of optical emission from an overlaid monolayer of two-dimensional transition metal di-Chalcogenide (2D TMDC) semiconductor material. Here I will discuss how the geometry-dependent plasmonic resonance of a nanoplasmonic array could induce a significant degree of linear polarization to the optical emission from an otherwise unpolarized atomically thin excitonic emitter at room temperature.
The key factors governing such functional light-matter interactions in low dimensional semiconductor excitonic systems relevant to novel fundamental and applied interests will be the general intent of this talk.