CdSe量子棒的线偏振光学性质
第27卷第12期
2006年12月
半导体
CHINESEJOURNALOFSEMICONDUCTORS
Vo1.27No.12
Dec.,2006
Linear.PolarizationOpticalPropertyofCdSeQuantumRods
ZhangXiuwenandXiaJianbai
(InstituteofSemiconductors?ChineseAcademyofSciences.Beijing100083,China)
Abstract:Thelinear-polarizationopticalpropertyofCdSequantumrodsisstudiedintheframeworkofeffective.
massenvelopefunctiontheory.Theeffectsofshapeandmagneticfieldonthelinearpolarizationfactorsarcinves.
tigated.ItisfoundthatCdSequantumsphereshavenegativepolarizationfactors(xy.polarizedemission)andquan.
tumlongrodswithsmallradiushavepositivelinearpolarizationfactors(z-polarizedemission).Thez-directionis
thedirectionofthecaxis.Quantumlongrodswithlargeradiushavenegativeli
nearpolarizationfactors.dueto
thehexagonalcrystalsymmetryandthecrystalfieldsplittingenergy.Thelinearpolarizationfactorsdecreaseand
maychangefromapositivevaluetoanegativevalue;i.e.,thez-polarizedemissionsdecreaserelativetoxy.polar.
izedemissionsasthemagneticfieldappliedalongthezdirectionincreases.
Keywords:quantumrotis;linearpolarization;CdSe
PACCl7360L;7865K
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1IntrOductiOn
ThemethodtosynthesizeCdSenanostruc.
tureshasimproved.SingleCdSedotshavebeena.
chievedt’~,andCdSequantumrodshavealsobeen
synthesizedE引.whoseshapecanbecontrolledC..
Recentlymuchattentionhasbeenpaidtotheline—
ar-polarizationopticalpropertyofthesenano-
structuresE1,2,5--8].Thesenanostructureshavebe.
comeamajorsubjectofattentionbecauseoftheir
prospectiveapplicationsindevices.xy—polarized
emissionsfromCdSesphereswereobservedand
usedbyEmpedoclesetaf.E6]tomonitortherota.
tionalmotionofquantumdotsinvarioushostma-
trices.Atwo.dimensionaltransitiondipolewasin+
troducedtoinvestigatethexy..polarizedemis.
sionsE..whichareactuallyduetothehexagona1.
crystalsymmetryandthecrystalfieldsplittingen-
ergy.z-polarizedemissionsfromCdSerodswere
observedE.andaone.dimensionaltransitiondi.
polewasintroducedtoinvestigateitUJ.
Motivatedbytheexperimentalprogress,we
studytheeffectsoftheshapeandmagneticfield
onthelinear-polarizationopticalpropertyof
wurtzitequantumrodsusingtheformermod.
el/9,13-l5]
2Modelandcalculation
Ifwetakethebasicfunctionsofthevalence.
bandtopas
ll,I)=(1/?2)(X+iY)
I1,1)=Z
andl1,一1)=(1/?2)(X—iY)(1)
theeffective.massHamiltonian[.]ofaholeinthe
zeroSOCcaseiswrittenas
where
——
1H
2to— ho—
o
P1
S
丁
P1y1P.一
P3=),P.+
P3
丁
P1
y2P.
T=‘7P+
丁=‘7P+
(2)
S=Ap.P+~/P
S=一Ap.PI”一PI(3)
P.andP’?arethesecondandfirst.ordertensors
ofthemomentumoperator,respectively,p0
*ProjectsupportedbytheNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChina(No.
90301007)andtheSpecialFundsforNationalKeyBasicRe?
searchPlanofChina(No.G001CB3095)
tCorrespondingauthor.Email:zhxw99@semi.ac.cn
Received24April2006,revisedmanuscriptreceived22June2006@2006Ch
ineseInstituteofElectronics
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(4)
Table1ParametersforCdSeintheactualcalculation
mm71珐AMmcV?c/mcV
0.17560.17281+79850.71350.79701.44922.1660.37790.6532139.325
Here,wetakethebasisfunctionstobe
Il,1)十,ll,0)十,ll,一1)十,ll,l>,ll,0)
andl1,一1).Theenvelopefunctionsare
=
??M;m+1/21.H
af..一1.十Cf._『(kt.r)Y.一1(口,)
b…tC2(kr)YIIm(口,)
d..+1.十C.f(k,)Y.+(口,)
af.,..Cf,f(足,)Y”(口,)
bf.,+l,’C,』f(k,)Y”+1(口,)
df_n.m+’Cf(k,)Y+(口,)
(5)
Misthezcomponentofthetotalangular
momentum.TheeffectivemassHamiltonianofan
electroniswrittenas
H印=一?
1
=
(去+1)
=
1(1一击)?
WetakethebasicfunctionsasS十andS,
whereSistheBlochstateoftheconduction-band
bottom.Theenvelopefunctionsare
=
(麓:::)?
Forquantumrods,weintroduceacoordinate
transformationt.]
=x
Y=Y
Zez
P:P一/e(9)
whereeistheaspectratio;i?e.豢’Lithe
length,andRisthetransverseradiusofthequan_
tumrods.
Weassumethattheexternalmagneticfieldis
appliedalongthezaxisofthecrystalstructure?
Wechoosethesymmetricgauge,sothatthevector
potentialiswrittenas
A=(一丢B:y,Bz,o)(1O)
Inthepresenceofanexternalmagneticfield,
themomentumoperatorbecomesP+eA.Because
thedifferentcomponentsofPdonotcommute,
thentheP.
ermsintheLuttingerHamiltonian
arenotsymmetric.Luttinger[4]introducedthe
symmetrizedproduct
{PP口)=寺(PP.+p.P)(11)
HedividedtheLuttingerHamiltonianinto
twoparts,thesymmetricpartandtheantisym_
metricpart.Theantisymmetricpartissimply
writtenas
H…=KpBI?B(12)
ThewholeHamiltoniansofelectronand
hole,respectively,are
H.=H.o+HJrL.+Hz..n_.(13)
Hh=Hh.+H?+Hmm_h—H删m—Hzm?h
(14)
ThetermsH一
.,
H_h,Hz?.,andHzc—n_h
aregivenbyZhangela1..
Ifthewavepropagationisalongtheaxisof
thecrystalstructure,thelinearpolarizationfactor
iswrittenas
P=(I:一I)/(I+I)(15)
IandIaretheintensitiesofthezandy
polarizedtransitions.Withtheopticaltransition
betweenagivenelectronstateandagivenhole
state,theyareproportionalto
,={?b.i..卅.
,={?(al,n,m~sPJl…,f.n.巩-
e{.n…).
dl,n,m,s…,)/}
口f.n.卅.,bf,n,卅.,d1.n,m,ande!.n.m.are
inEq.(5)andEq.(8).
3Resultsanddiscussion
(17)
given
Theeffectivemassparameters[.]forCdSe
aregiveninTable1.Weusetheenergyunit,o
ooo
OOOO
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(簧)andthedimensionlessmagneticfield
strengthun=.
3.1Structureandshapeeffects
Theeffectofthecrystalfieldsplittingenergy
polarizationopticalpropertyof ?onthelinear—
CdSequantumrodsiSshowninFig.1.FromFig.1
(a),weseethatthelinearpolarizationfactorsof
opticaItransitionsofCdSequantumspheresare
negative.ThisiSduetothehexagonalcrystalsym.
metryandthecrystalfieldsplittingenergy?,
whichlifttheenergiesofthestatewithZBloch
stateandmakethestatewithXYBlochstatesthe
loweststateofthevalenceband,withtheresult
2
葛
.凹
急
山
?/meV
thatthelinearpolarizationfactorsarenegative.in
agreementwiththeexperimentresults~?,.
With
bigger?,theenergiesofthestatewithZ—Bloch
stateareliftedmore,andthelinearpolarization
factorsbecomeevenmorenegative.Wealsosee
thatwithbigger?,thelinearpolarizationfactors
ofopticaltransitionsofCdSequantumlongrods
withsmallradiusarelesspositiveandhavesma1.
1ersaturationvalues.FromFig.1(b),weseethat
aseincreases,thenormalizedintensityof口tran.
sitionsdecreases,andthenormalizedintensityof
transitionsincreasesatfirst,thendecreases
slowlyduetothedecreaseoftheoverlapofthe
electronandholewavefunctionswheneissufficient.
1ylarge.FromFig.1(c),weseethatas?increases,
j
暑
誊
呈
.坌
凹
急
P
Fig.1(a)LinearpolarizationfactorsofopticaltransitionsofCdSequantumrod
swithR2nmatT300Kas
functionsofe;(b)Normalizedintensitiesofand:transitionsofCdSequantumr
odswithR2nmand?
25meVatT300Kasfunctionsofe;(c)Linearpolarizationfactorsofopticaltran
sitionsofCdSequantum
sphereswithR=2nmatT=300Kasfunctionsof?;(d)LinearpolarizationfactorsofopticaltransitionsoflnAs
quantumrodswithR=2nmatT=300Kasfunctionsofe
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thenegativelinearpolarizationfactordecreases.
WithA=0,thelinearpolarizationfactoriSnot
zero,butnegative.Thisisduetothehexagonal
crystalsymmetryasweusetheeffective—masspa-
rametersinTable1.Forexample,y1andy1arenot
equal,whiletheyareequalinzinc-blendestruc-
turesemiconductormateria1.Thelinearpolariza-
tionfactorofazinc.blendequantumsphere
shouldbezero.asshowninFig.1(d).
Theeffectofthelateraldimensiononthe
linear—polarizationopticalpropertyofCdSequan—
tumrodsiSshowninFig.2.FromFig.2(a),in
whicheisalwaysgreaterthan1.66,weseethat
thelinearpolarizationfactorsdecreasefromposi-
tivevaluestonegativevaluesasRincreases.The
linearpolarizationfactorsofopticaltransitionsof
善
磊
山
暑
‘磊
CdSequantumlongrodswithlargeradiusareneg—
ative.ThisiSbecausewhenRissufficientlylarge,
thequantumconfinementeffectthatmakesthe
statewiththeZBlochstatetheloweststateofthe
valencebandissoweakthatitcannotcompensate
theeffectofthehexagonalcrystalsymmetryand
thecrystalfieldsplittingenergy?,whichmakes
thestatewithXyBlochstatestheloweststateof
thevalence.band.Athighertemperatures,thelin-
earpolarizationfactorsdecreasemoreslowly,Itis
explicitlyshowninFig,2(c)thatCdSequantum
longrodswithsmallradiushavepositivelinear
polarizationfactors,andCdSequantumlongrods
withlargeradiushavenegativelinearpolarization
factors.Thenormalizedintensitiesareshownin
Fig.2(b)andFig.2(d),respectively.
Fig.2(a)LinearpolarizationfactorsofopticaltransitionsofCdSequantumrodswithL=20nmand?.=25meV
asfunctionsofR;(b)NormalizedintensitiesofandztransitionsofCdSequantumrodswithL=20nmand?.
=25meVatT=300KasfunctionsofR:(c)LinearpolarizationfactorsofopticaltransitionsofCdSequantum
rodswithe=2andA=25meVasfunctionsofR;(d)NormalizedintensitiesofandtransitionsofCdSequan—
turnrodswithe=2andA=25meVatT=300KasfunctionsofR
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3.2Magneticfieldeffect
Thelinearpolarizationfactorsofoptical
transitionsofCdSequantumsphereswithR=
2nmand?.=25meVasfunctionsofbareshown
inFig.3(a),andfittedinFig.3(b).FromFig.3
(a),weseethatthenegativelinearpolarization
factordecreasesasbincreases.Thisismainlydue
totheantisymmetricsplitting.Athighertempera?
tures,thenegativelinearpolarizationfactorsare
b(164.56T)
Fig.3(a)Linearpolarizationfactorsofopticaltran-
sitionsofCdSequantumsphereswithR=2nmandA.
=25meVasfunctionsofb:(b)FunctionY=
c—eme’d
c+edx+e—dx
bigger,anddecreasemoreslowlywithincreasing
b.Wecanuseasimplemodelthattakesintoac—
countonlytheantisymmetricsplittingtoexplain
thisphenomenon.Inthesimplemodel,asbin—
creases,theenergyofthe『1,1)stategoesdown,
theenergyoftheJl,一1)stategoesup,andthe
energyofthel1,0)statedoesnotchange.Consid.
eringtheBoltzmanndistribution,thelinearpolar.
izationfactorinthesimplemodelisafunctionof
b,whoseformis
Y=导筹(18)(18)
whereYandxrepresentthelinearpolarization
factorandthemagneticfieldstrengthb,respec-
tively.WefitthethreecurvesinFig.3(a)atdif—
ferenttemperatureswithdifferentparametersc
anddinEq.(18)inFig.3(b).Theparameterd
intheBoltzmannfactorisproportionaltothere
ciprocalofthetemperature.Thesimplemodelfits
verywel1.Thelinearpolarizationfactorsofopti.
caltransitionsofCdSequantumrodswithR=
2nmande2and?.=25meVasfunctionsofb
areshowninFig.4(a),andfittedinFig.4(b).We
seethatthelinearpolarizationfactordecreasesas
bincreases,thesameasFig.3(a).Athighertem—
peratures,thenegativelinearpolarizationfactors
havebiggervaluesatb=0,anddecreasemore
slowlywithincreasingb.AtT=100Kthelinear
polarizationfactorchangesfromapositivevalue
toanegativevalueasbincreases.Wecallthe
magneticfield,underwhichthelinearpolariza—
tionfactoriszero,thecrossingmagneticfield,as
showninFig.4(a).Atlowertemperatures,the
linearpolarizationfactorhasbiggervalueatb=
0,anddecreasesmorequicklyasbincreases,so
thecrossingmagneticfieldmaybesmaller.The
linearpolarizationfactorofopticaltransitionsof
CdSequantumrodswithR=3nmande=2andA
=25meVatT=10Kasafunctionofbisshown
inFig.5.Weseethatthelinearpolarizationfac—
torchangesfromapositivevaluetoanegative
valuearoundB=17.55Tasthemagneticfieldin-
4Conclusion
Thelinear-polarizationopticalpropertyof
CdSequantumrodsisstudiedindetail.Itisfound
thatCdSequantumsphereshavenegativepolari-
zationfactors(xy-polarizedemission).TheCdSe
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havenegativelinearpolarizationfactors.Undera
magneticfieldappliedalongthezaxisofthe
crystalstructure.thelinearpolarizationfactors
decrease.Thatistosay,thez-polarizedemission
decreasesrelativetoxy.polarizedemissionasthe
magneticfieldincreasesinthesphereandrodca—
ses.ThelinearpolarizationfactorofCdSequan—
rumrodswithsmallradiusmaychangefroma
positivevaluetoanegativevalueasthemagnetic
fieldincreases.
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2100半导体第27卷
CdSe量子棒的线偏振光学性质
张秀文夏建白
(中国科学院半导体研究所,北京100083)
摘要:用有效质量包络
数理论研究了CdS~量子棒的线偏振光学性质,考虑了形状和磁场的影响.发现CdSe量
子球具有负的线偏振因子(xy?平面内的线偏振发射),而小半径长量子棒具有正的线偏振因子(z一方向的线偏振发
射).一方向就是晶格c一轴方向.因六角晶格对称性和晶格场劈裂能的影响,大半径长量子棒具有负的线偏振因子.
线偏振因子随着z一方向磁场的增加而减小,可能由正变负,即一方向的线偏振发射相对y-平面内的线偏振发射
减小了.
关键词:量子棒;线偏振;CdSe
PACC:7360L;7865K
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*国家自然科学基金(批准号;90301007)和国家重点基础研究专项基金(批准号:G001CB3095)资助项目
十通信作者.Email:zhxw99@semi.ac.cn
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