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Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Licht-Materie-Wechselwirkung in Quantenpunkt-Mikroresonatoren und deren vertikalen und lateralen Emissionseigenschaften. Quantenpunkte sind nanoskopische Strukturen, in denen die Beweglichkeit der Ladungsträger unterhalb der de-Broglie-Wellenlänge eingeschränkt ist, wodurch die elektronische Zustandsdichte diskrete Werte annimmt. Sie werden daher auch als künstliche Atome bezeichnet. Um die Emissionseigenschaften der Quantenpunkte zu modifizieren, werden sie im Rahmen dieser Arbeit als aktive Schicht in Mikrosäulenresonatoren eingebracht. Diese bestehen aus einer GaAs lambda-Kavität, die zwischen zwei Braggspiegeln aus alternierenden GaAs und AlAs Schichten eingefasst ist. Diese Resonatoren bieten sowohl eine vertikale Emission über Fabry-Perot Moden, als auch eine laterale Emission über Flustergaleriemoden. Die Licht-Materie-Wechselwirkung zwischen den Resonatormoden und lokalisierten Ladungsträgern in den Quantenpunkten, genannt Exzitonen, kann in zwei Regime unterteilt werden. Im Regime der starken Kopplung wird der spontane Emissionsprozess in einem Quantenpunkt reversibel und das emittierte Photon kann wieder durch den Quantenpunkt absorbiert werden. Die theoretische Beschreibung der Kopplung eines Exzitons an die Resonatormode erfolgt über das Jaynes-Cummings Modell und kann im Tavis-Cummings Modell auf mehrere Emitter erweitert werden. Ist die Dämpfung des Systems zu gross, so befindet man sich im Regime der schwachen Kopplung, in dem die Emissionsrate des Quantenpunkts durch den Purcell-Effekt erhöht werden kann. In diesem Regime können Mikrolaser mit hohen Einkopplungsraten der spontanen Emission in die Resonatormode und niedrigen Schwellpumpströmen realisiert werden. Zur Charakterisierung der Proben werden vor allem die Methoden der Mikro-Elektrolumineszenz und der Photonenkorrelationsmessungen eingesetzt.
This thesis focuses on various aspects and techniques of 19F magnetic resonance (MR). The first chapters provide an overview of the basic physical properties, 19F MR and MR sequences related to this work. Chapter 5 focuses on the application of 19F MR to visualize biological processes in vivo using two different animal models. The dissimilar models underlined the wide applicability of 19F MR in preclinical research. A subsection of Chapter 6 shows the application of compressed sensing (CS) to 19F turbo-spin-echo chemical shift imaging (TSE-CSI), which leads to reduced measurement time. CS, however, can only be successfully applied when a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is available. When the SNR is low, so-called spike artifacts occur with the CS algorithm used in the present work. However, it was shown in an additional subsection that these artifacts can be reduced using a CS-based post processing algorithm. Thus, CS might help overcome limitations with time consuming 19F CSI experiments. Chapter 7 deals with a novel technique to quantify the B+1 profile of an MR coil. It was shown that, using a specific application scheme of off resonant pulses, Bloch-Siegert (BS)-based B+1 mapping can be enabled using a Carr Purcell Meiboom Gill (CPMG)-based TSE sequence. A fast acquisition of the data necessary for B+1 mapping was thus enabled. In the future, the application of BS-CPMG-TSE B+1 mapping to improve quantification using 19F MR could therefore be possible.
Spin-Bahn-Kopplung in Grenzschichten: Mikroskopische Zusammenhänge und Strategien zur Manipulation
(2012)
Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Einfluss der Spin-Bahn-Kopplung (SBK) auf die zweidimensionale elektronische Struktur von Festkörperoberflächen und -grenzflächen. Aufgrund der strukturellen Inversionsasymmetrie kann die SBK in derartigen Systemen eine Spinaufspaltung der elektronischen Zustände herbeiführen und eine charakteristische impulsabhängige Spinstruktur induzieren (Rashba-Effekt). Die Studien in dieser Arbeit sind zum einen darauf gerichtet, das physikalische Verständnis der mikroskopischen Zusammenhänge, die die Spinaufspaltung und die Spinorientierung elektronischer Zustände an Grenzflächen bestimmen, zu verbessern. Des Weiteren sollen Möglichkeiten zur Manipulation der SBK durch kontrollierte Variationen chemischer und struktureller Grenzflächenparameter erforscht werden. Als Modellsysteme für diese Fragestellungen dienen die isostrukturellen Oberflächenlegierungen BiCu2 und BiAg2, deren elektronische Struktur mittels winkelaufgelöster Photoelektronenspektroskopie (ARPES) und spinaufgelöster ARPES untersucht wird. Die Resultate der Experimente werden mithilfe von ab initio-Rechnungen und einfacheren Modellbetrachtungen interpretiert. Die Arbeit schließt mit einer ausblickenden Präsentation von Experimenten zu dem topologischen Isolator Bi2Se3(0001). Vergleichende ARPES-Messungen zu BiAg2/Ag(111) und BiCu2/Cu(111) zeigen, dass bereits geringe Unterschiede in der Grenzschichtmorphologie die Größe der Spinaufspaltung in der elektronischen Struktur um ein Vielfaches verändern können. Zudem belegen spinaufgelöste Experimente eine invertierte Spinorientierung der elektronischen Zustände in BiCu2 im Vergleich mit dem Referenzsystem Au(111). Beide Resultate können durch eine theoretische Analyse des Potentialprofils und der elektronischen Ladungsverteilung senkrecht zu der Grenzfläche in Kombination mit einfachen Modellbetrachtungen verstanden werden. Es stellt sich heraus, dass Asymmetrien in der Ladungsverteilung das direkte mikroskopische Bindeglied zwischen der Spinstruktur des elektronischen Systems und den strukturellen und chemischen Parametern der Grenzschicht bilden. Weitergehende ARPES-Experimente zeigen, dass die spinabhängige elektronische Struktur zudem signifikant durch die Symmetrie des Potentials parallel zu der Grenzflächenebene beeinflusst wird. Eine Manipulation der SBK wird in BiCu2 durch die Deposition von Adatomen erreicht. Hierdurch gelingt es, die Spinaufspaltung sowohl zu vergrößern (Na-Adsorption) als auch zu verringern (Xe-Adsorption). ARPES-Experimente an dem ternären Schichtsystem BiAg2/Ag/Au(111) belegen erstmalig eine Kopplung zwischen elektronischen Bändern mit entgegengesetztem Spincharakter in einem zweidimensionalen System mit Spinaufspaltung (Interband-Spin-Bahn-Kopplung). Der zugrundeliegende Kopplungsmechanismus steht in bemerkenswerter Analogie zu den Auswirkungen der SBK auf die spinpolarisierte elektronische Struktur in ferromagnetischen Systemen. Variationen in der Schichtdicke des Ag-Substratfilms erlauben es, die Stärke der Interband-SBK zu manipulieren.
Self-organized nanowires at semiconductor surfaces offer the unique opportunity to study electrons in reduced dimensions. Notably the dimensionality of the system determines it’s electronic properties, beyond the quasiparticle description. In the quasi-one-dimensional (1D) regime with weak lateral coupling between the chains, a Peierls instability can be realized. A nesting condition in the Fermi surface leads to a backfolding of the 1D electron band and thus to an insulating state. It is accompanied by a charge density wave (CDW) in real space that corresponds to the nesting vector. This effect has been claimed to occur in many surface-defined nanowire systems, such as the In chains on Si(111) or the Au reconstructions on the terraced Si(553) and Si(557) surfaces. Therefore a weak coupling between the nanowires in these systems has to be concluded. However theory proposes another state in the perfect 1D limit, which is completely destroyed upon slight coupling to higher dimensions. In this so-called Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) state, the quasiparticle description of the Fermi liquid breaks down. Since the interaction between the electrons is enhanced due to the strong confinement, only collective excitations are allowed. This leads to novel effects like spin charge separation, where spin and charge degrees of freedom are decoupled and allowed to travel independently along the 1D-chain. Such rare state has not been realized at a surface until today. This thesis uses a novel approach to realize nanowires with improved confinement by studying the Au reconstructed Ge(001) surface. A new cleaning procedure using piranha solution is presented, in order to prepare a clean and long-range ordered substrate. To ensure optimal growth of the Au nanowires the phase diagram is extensively studied by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and low energy electron diffraction (LEED). The structural elements of the chains are revealed and described in high detail. Remarkably a structural phase transition of the delicate wire structure is found to occur above room temperature. Due to the lack of energy gaps a Peierls transition can be excluded as its origin. The transition is rather determined as 3D Ising type and therefore includes the substrate as well. Two hallmark properties of a TLL are found in the Au/Ge(001) wires by spectroscopic studies: Power-law suppression of the density of states (DOS) and universal scaling. This impressively proves the existence of a TLL in these chains and opens up a gateway to an atomic playground. Local studies and manipulations of a TLL state become possible for the first time. These comprise (i) doping by alkaline atoms, (ii) studies on chain ends and (iii) tunable coupling between the chains by additional Au atoms. Most importantly these manipulations offer input and test for theoretical models and predictions, and are thereby ultimately advancing the field of correlated electrons.
In this PhD thesis, the fingerprints of geometry and topology on low dimensional mesoscopic systems are investigated. In particular, holographic non-equilibrium transport properties of the quantum spin Hall phase, a two dimensional time reversal symmetric bulk insulating phase featuring one dimensional gapless helical edge modes are studied. In these metallic helical edge states, the spin and the direction of motion of the charge carriers are locked to each other and counter-propagating states at the same energy are conjugated by time reversal symmetry. This phenomenology entails a so called topological protection against elastic single particle backscattering by time reversal symmetry. We investigate the limitations of this topological protection by studying the influence of inelastic processes as induced by the interplay of phonons and extrinsic spin orbit interaction and by taking into account multi electron processes due to electron-electron interaction, respectively. Furthermore, we propose possible spintronics applications that rely on a spin charge duality that is uniquely associated with the quantum spin Hall phase. This duality is present in the composite system of two helical edge states with opposite helicity as realized on the two opposite edges of a quantum spin Hall sample with ribbon geometry. More conceptually speaking, the quantum spin Hall phase is the first experimentally realized example of a symmetry protected topological state of matter, a non-interacting insulating band structure which preserves an anti-unitary symmetry and is topologically distinct from a trivial insulator in the same symmetry class with totally localized and hence independent atomic orbitals. In the first part of this thesis, the reader is provided with a fairly self-contained introduction into the theoretical concepts underlying the timely research field of topological states of matter. In this context, the topological invariants characterizing these novel states are viewed as global analogues of the geometric phase associated with a cyclic adiabatic evolution. Whereas the detailed discussion of the topological invariants is necessary to gain deeper insight into the nature of the quantum spin Hall effect and related physical phenomena, the non-Abelian version of the local geometric phase is employed in a proposal for holonomic quantum computing with spin qubits in quantum dots.
Within the scope of this thesis two main topics have been investigated: the examination of micromagnetic sensors and transport of massive and massless Dirac fermions in HgTe quantum wells. For the investigation of localized, inhomogeneous magnetic fields, the fabrication and characterization of two different non-invasive and ultra sensitive sensors has been established at the chair ”Experimentelle Physik” of the University of Würzburg. The first sensor is based on the young technique named micro-Hall magnetometry. The necessary semiconductor devices (Hall cross structures) were fabricated by high-resolution electron beam lithography based on two different two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs), namely InAs/(Al,Ga)Sb- and HgTe/(Hg,Cd)Te- heterostructures. The characteristics have been examined in two different ways. Measurements in homogeneous magnetic fields served for characterization of the sensors, whereas the investigation of artificially produced sub-µm magnets substantiates the suitability of the devices for the study of novel nanoscale magnetic materials (e.g. nanowires). Systematic experiments with various magnets are in accordance with the theory of single-domain particles and anisotropic behavior due to shapes with high aspect ratio. The highest sensitivity for strongly localized fields was obtained at T = 4.2 K for a (200x200) nm^2 Hall cross - made from shallow, high mobility HgTe 2DEG. Although the field resolution was merely δB ≈ 100 µT, the nanoscale sensor size yields an outstanding flux resolution of δΦ = 2 10^(−3) Φ0, where Φ0 = h/2e is the flux quantum. Translating this result in terms of magnetic moment, the sensitivity allows for the detection of magnetization changes of a particle centered on top of the sensor as low as δM ≈ 10^2 µB, with the magnetic moment of a single electron µB, the Bohr magneton. The further examination of a permalloy nanomagnet with a cross-section of (100x20) nm^2 confirms the expected resolution ability, extracted from the noise of the sensor. The observed high signal-to-noise ratio validates the detection limit of this sensor in terms of geometry. This would be reached for a magnet (same material) with quadratic cross-section for an edge length of 3.3 nm. Moreover, the feasibility of this sensor for operation in a wide temperature range (T = mK... > 200 K) and high magnetic fields has been confirmed. The second micromagnetic sensor is the micro-SQUID (micro-Superconducting-QUantum-Interference-Device) based on niobium. The typical sensor area of the devices built in this work was (1.0x1.0) µm^2, with constrictions of about 20 nm. The characterization of this device demonstrates an amazing field sensitivity (regarding its size) of δB < 1 µT. Even though the sensor was 25 times larger than the best micro-Hall sensor, it provided an excellent flux resolution in the order of δΦ ≈ 5 10^(−4) Φ0 and a similar magnetic moment resolution of δM ≈ 10^2 µB. Furthermore, the introduction of an ellipsoidal permalloy magnet (axes: 200 nm and 400 nm, thickness 30 nm) substantiates the suitability for the detection of minuscule, localized magnetic fields. The second part of the thesis deals with the peculiar transport properties of HgTe quantum wells. These rely on the linear contribution to the band structure inherent to the heterostructure. Therefore the system can be described by an effective Dirac Hamiltonian, whose Dirac mass is tunable by the variation of the quantum well thickness. By fabrication and characterization of a systematical series of substrates, a system with vanishing Dirac mass (zero energy gap) has been confirmed. This heterostructure therefore resembles graphene (a monolayer of graphite), with the difference of exhibiting only one valley in the energy dispersion of the Brillouin zone. Thus parasitical intervalley scattering cannot occur. The existence of this system has been proven by the agreement of theoretical predictions, based on widely accepted band structure calculations with the experiment (Landau level dispersion, conductivity). Furthermore, another particularity of the band structure - the transition from linear to parabolic character - has been illustrated by the widths of the plateaus in the quantum Hall effect. Finally, the transport of ”massive” Dirac fermions (with finite Dirac mass) is investigated. In particular the describing Dirac Hamiltonian induces weak localization effects depending on the Dirac mass. This mechanism has not been observed to date, and survives in higher temperatures compared to typical localization mechanisms.
A primary focus of the semiconductor industry is the miniaturisation of active devices. This work shows an experimental approach to fabricate small three-terminal devices suitable for the characterisation of single molecules. The nanoelectrodes are fabricated by high resolution electron-beam lithography and electromigration. First measurements on buckyball and pentaphenylene molecules are presented.
In dieser Arbeit wurden Einzel-Quantenpunkt-Speichertransistoren im Experiment untersucht und wesentliche Ergebnisse durch Modellierung nachgebildet. Der Einzel-Quantenpunkt-Speichertransistor ist ein Bauelement, welches durch eine neuartige Verfahrensweise im Schichtaufbau und bei der Strukturierung realisiert wurde. Hierbei sind vor allem zwei Teilschritte hervorzuheben: Zum einen wurde das Speicherelement aus positionskontrolliert gewachsenen InAs Quantenpunkten gebildet. Zum anderen wurden durch eine spezielle Trockenätztechnik schmale Ätzstrukturen erzeugt, welche sehr präzise an der lateralen Position der Quantenpunkte ausgerichtet war. Durch diese Verfahrensweise war es somit möglich, Transistorstrukturen mit einzelnen Quantenpunkten an den charakteristischen Engstellen des Kanals zu realisieren.
Elektrooptische Transporteigenschaften und stochastisch aktivierte Prozesse Resonanter Tunneldioden
(2012)
Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden elektrooptische Transporteigenschaften und stochastisch aktivierte Prozesse Resonanter Tunneldioden (RTDs) bei Raumtemperatur untersucht. Die RTDs wurden auf dem III-V Halbleitermaterialsystem AlGaAs/GaAs durch Molekularstrahlepitaxie, Elektronenstrahllithographie und trockenchemischen Ätztechniken hergestellt. Im Bereich des negativen differentiellen Leitwerts konnte bistabi-les Schalten und hierbei stochastisch aktivierte Dynamik nichtlinearer Systeme untersucht werden. Die Flächenabhängigkeit der Ätzrate konnte ausgenutzt werden, um RTDs mit einem Stamm und zwei Transportästen zu realisieren, welche hinsichtlich ihrer optischen und elektrischen Eigenschaften untersucht wurden. Im ersten experimentellen Abschnitt 3.1 werden die elektrischen Transporteigenschaften Resonanter Tunneldioden bei Raum-temperatur und die Flächenabhängigkeit des kohärenten und nicht-kohärenten Elektronen-transports analysiert. Die Realisierung universeller logischer Gatter (NOR und NAND) und deren Rekonfigurierbarkeit durch einen externen Kontrollparameter wird in Abschnitt 3.2 gezeigt. In Abschnitt 3.3 wird die Lichtsensitivität Resonanter Tunneldioden als Photode-tektoren für den sichtbaren Wellenlängenbereich und in Abschnitt 3.4 für die Telekommu-nikationswellenlänge bei λ = 1,3 µm demonstriert.
This thesis deals with the chaotic dynamics of nonlinear networks consisting of semiconductor lasers which have time-delayed self-feedbacks or mutual couplings. These semiconductor lasers are simulated numerically by the Lang-Kobayashi equations. The central issue is how the chaoticity of the lasers, measured by the maximal Lyapunov exponent, changes when the delay time is changed. It is analysed how this change of chaoticity with increasing delay time depends on the reflectivity of the mirror for the self-feedback or the strength of the mutal coupling, respectively. The consequences of the different types of chaos for the effect of chaos synchronization of mutually coupled semiconductor lasers are deduced and discussed. At the beginning of this thesis, the master stability formalism for the stability analysis of nonlinear networks with delay is explained. After the description of the Lang-Kobayashi equations and their linearizations as a model for the numerical simulation of semiconductor lasers with time-delayed couplings, the artificial sub-Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_{0}$ is introduced. It is explained how the sign of the sub-Lyapunov exponent can be determined by experiments. The notions of "strong chaos" and "weak chaos" are introduced and distinguished by their different scaling properties of the maximal Lyapunov exponent with the delay time. The sign of the sub-Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_{0}$ is shown to determine the occurence of strong or weak chaos. The transition sequence "weak to strong chaos and back to weak chaos" upon monotonically increasing the coupling strength $\sigma$ of a single laser's self-feedback is shown for numerical calculations of the Lang-Kobayashi equations. At the transition between strong and weak chaos, the sub-Lyapunov exponent vanishes, $\lambda_{0}=0$, resulting in a special scaling behaviour of the maximal Lyapunov exponent with the delay time. Transitions between strong and weak chaos by changing $\sigma$ can also be found for the Rössler and Lorenz dynamics. The connection between the sub-Lyapunov exponent and the time-dependent eigenvalues of the Jacobian for the internal laser dynamics is analysed. Counterintuitively, the difference between strong and weak chaos is not directly visible from the trajectory although the difference of the trajectories induces the transitions between the two types of chaos. In addition, it is shown that a linear measure like the auto-correlation function cannot unambiguously reveal the difference between strong and weak chaos either. Although the auto-correlations after one delay time are significantly higher for weak chaos than for strong chaos, it is not possible to detect a qualitative difference. If two time-scale separated self-feedbacks are present, the shorter feedback has to be taken into account for the definition of a new sub-Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_{0,s}$, which in this case determines the occurence of strong or weak chaos. If the two self-feedbacks have comparable delay times, the sub-Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_{0}$ remains the criterion for strong or weak chaos. It is shown that the sub-Lyapunov exponent scales with the square root of the effective pump current $\sqrt{p-1}$, both in its magnitude and in the position of the critical coupling strengths. For networks with several distinct sub-Lyapunov exponents, it is shown that the maximal sub-Lyapunov exponent of the network determines whether the network's maximal Lyapunov exponent scales strongly or weakly with increasing delay time. As a consequence, complete synchronization of a network is excluded for arbitrary networks which contain at least one strongly chaotic laser. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the sub-Lyapunov exponent of a driven laser depends on the number of the incoherently superimposed inputs from unsynchronized input lasers. For networks of delay-coupled lasers operating in weak chaos, the condition $|\gamma_{2}|<\mathrm{e}^{-\lambda_{\mathrm{m}}\,\tau}$ for stable chaos synchronization is deduced using the master stability formalism. Hence, synchronization of any network depends only on the properties of a single laser with self-feedback and the eigenvalue gap of the coupling matrix. The characteristics of the master stability function for the Lang-Kobayashi dynamics is described, and consequently, the master stability function is refined to allow for precise practical prediction of synchronization. The prediction of synchronization with the master stability function is demonstrated for bidirectional and unidirectional networks. Furthermore, the master stability function is extended for two distinct delay times. Finally, symmetries and resonances for certain values of the ratio of the delay times are shown for the master stability function of the Lang-Kobyashi equations.