In a network of quantum dots embedded in a semiconductor structure, no two are the same, and so their individual and collective properties must be measured after fabrication. Here, we demonstrate a ‘level anti-crossing spectroscopy’ (LACS) technique in which the ladder of orbital energy levels of one quantum dot is used to probe that of a nearby quantum dot. This optics-based technique can be a...

the effects of conduction band nonparabolicity, aluminum concentration and external electric field on the charge density and binding energy of an on-center hydrogenic donor impurity in a spherical quantum dot which is located at the center of a cylindrical nano-wire are studied. the energy eigenvalues and the corresponding wave functions are calculated using finite difference approximation with...

quantum dot cellular automata (qca) is one of the important nano-level technologies for implementation of both combinational and sequential systems. qca have the potential to achieve low power dissipation and operate high speed at thz frequencies. however large probability of occurrence fabrication defects in qca, is a fundamental challenge to use this emerging technology. because of these vari...

– Three terminal tunnelling experiments on quantum dots in the Coulomb-blockade regime allow a quantitative determination of the coupling strength of individual quantum states to the leads. Exploiting this insight we have observed independent fluctuations of the coupling strengths as a function of electron number and magnetic field due to changes in the shape of the wave function in the dot. Su...

Achieving control over the electron spin in quantum dots (artificial atoms) or real atoms promises access to new technologies in conventional and quantum information processing. Here we review our proposal for quantum computing with the spins of electrons confined to quantum dots. We discuss the basic requirements for implementing spin qubits, and describe a complete set of quantum gates for si...

We perform measurements on an AlGaAs/GaAs double-quantum-dot structure, where dots are separated by an opaque barrier and each dot conductance is measured independently and simultaneously. We measure the Coulomb blockade oscillations ~CBOs! for each dot when the structure is configured for one and two dots. When configured as a single-dot device, we sweep the backgate and observe different CBO ...

We theoretically demonstrate that nanocomposites made of colloidal semiconductor quantum dot monolayers placed between metal nanoparticle monolayers can function as multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials. Depending on the thickness of the spacer between the quantum dot and nanoparticle layers, the effective permittivity tensor of the nanocomposite is shown to become indefinite, resulting in increa...

We propose a controllable way of tuning Fano resonances in open quantum dots in the absence of magnetic field. A quantum dot can be modified by changing the gate voltages that define the dot itself. An extra degree of freedom can be introduced by means of a controllable repulsive perturbation, such as the one induced by scanning a Atomic Force Microscope tip on a real sample. We numerically inv...

BACKGROUND Confocal microscopy is a widely employed methodology in cellular biology, commonly used for investigating biological organization at the cellular and sub-cellular level. Most basic confocal microscopes are equipped to cleanly discriminate no more than four fluorophores in a given sample, limiting the utility of this method for co-localization, co-expression, and other multi-parameter...

To describe the interaction of molecular vibrations with electrons at a quantum dot contacted to metallic leads, we extend an analytical approach that we previously developed for the many-polaron problem. Our scheme is based on an incomplete variational Lang-Firsov transformation, combined with a perturbative calculation of the electron-phonon self-energy in the framework of generalized Matsuba...