Excitonic enhancement of spin relaxation in diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum wells

Exciton Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

1.1 Two-Dimensional exciton fine structure The spin properties of excitons in nanostructures are determined by their fine structure. Before analysing the exciton spin dynamics, we give first a brief description of the exciton states in quantum wells. We will mainly focus in this review on GaAs or InGaAs quantum well which are model systems. For more details, the reader is referred to the review...

Spin relaxation in GaAs(110) quantum wells

Spin relaxation quenching in semiconductor quantum dots.

We have studied the spin dynamics in self-organized InAs/GaAs quantum dots by time-resolved photoluminescence performed under strictly resonant excitation. At low temperature, we observe strictly no decay of both the linear and the circular luminescence polarization. This demonstrates that the carrier spins are totally frozen on the exciton lifetime scale.

Electron-spin beat susceptibility of excitons in semiconductor quantum wells.

Recent time-resolved differential transmission and Faraday rotation measurements of long-lived electron-spin coherence in quantum wells displayed intriguing parametric dependencies. For their understanding we formulate a microscopic theory of the optical response of a gas of optically incoherent excitons whose constituent electrons retain spin coherence, under a weak magnetic field applied in t...

Photo-Induced Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

We experimentally investigate the dynamics of spins in GaAs quantum wells under applied electric bias by photoluminescence (PL) measurements excited with circularly polarized light. The bias-dependent circular polarization of PL (P(PL)) with and without magnetic field is studied. The P(PL) without magnetic field is found to be decayed with an enhancement of increasing the strength of the negati...