Single-photon emission from single InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots grown by droplet epitaxy at high substrate temperature

Nanoscale Res Lett. 2012 Aug 31;7(1):493. doi: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-493.

Abstract

The authors report single-photon emission from InGaAs quantum dots grown by droplet epitaxy on (100) GaAs substrates using a solid-source molecular beam epitaxy system at elevated substrate temperatures above 400°C without post-growth annealing. High-resolution micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy exhibits sharp excitonic emissions with lifetimes ranging from 0.7 to 1.1 ns. The coherence properties of the emitted photons are investigated by measuring the first-order field correlation function.