Transverse magnetic routing of light emission in hybrid plasmonic-semiconductor nanostructures: Towards operation at room temperature

Lars Klompmaker, Alexander N. Poddubny, Eyüp Yalcin, Leonid V. Litvin, Ralf Jede, Grzegorz Karczewski, Sergij Chusnutdinow, Tomasz Wojtowicz, Dmitri R. Yakovlev, Manfred Bayer, Ilya A. Akimov

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Abstract

We study experimentally and theoretically the temperature dependence of transverse magnetic routing of light emission from hybrid plasmonic-semiconductor quantum well structures where the exciton emission from the quantum well is routed into surface plasmon polaritons propagating along a nearby semiconductor-metal interface. In II-VI and III-V direct-band semiconductors the magnitude of routing is governed by the circular polarization of exciton optical transitions, that is induced by a magnetic field. For structures comprising a (Cd,Mn)Te/(Cd,Mg)Te diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum well we observe a strong directionality of the emission up to 15% at low temperature of 20K and magnetic field of 485mT due to giant Zeeman splitting of holes mediated via the strong exchange interaction with Mn2+ ions. For increasing temperatures towards room temperature the magnetic susceptibility decreases and the directionality strongly drops to 4% at about 65 K. We also propose an alternative design based on a nonmagnetic (In,Ga)As/(In,Al)As quantum well structure, suitable for higher temperatures. According to our calculations, such structure can demonstrate emission directionality up to 5% for temperatures below 200 K and moderate magnetic fields of 1 T.

Original languageEnglish
Article number013058
Number of pages15
JournalPHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
Volume4
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Jan 2022
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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