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2019

Theses/Dissertations

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Semiconductor and Optical Materials

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(111)-Oriented Gallium Arsenide Tensile-Strained Quantum Dots Tailored For Entangled Photon Emission, Christopher Schuck May 2019

(111)-Oriented Gallium Arsenide Tensile-Strained Quantum Dots Tailored For Entangled Photon Emission, Christopher Schuck

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The use of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) to create quantum dots (QDs) embedded in solid-state semiconductor media has been at the forefront of novel and record-breaking optoelectronic device development for many years. However, the wide range of semiconductor fabrication capabilities and the non-equilibrium growth parameters inherent to MBE mean that there are still many QD research frontiers that are yet to be explored.

This work focuses on a recently discovered method that permits, for the first time, the growth of QDs under tensile strain on non-(100) surfaces. My research explores the first (and currently only) optically active materials system for …