The Delft intense slow positron beam 2D-ACAR facility for analysis of nanocavities and quantum dots

Positron annihilation spectroscopy is a powerful method to study materials containing very small concentrations of atomic defects and embedded quantum dots. Depending on the method of producing positrons, there are bulk spectroscopies using fast positrons and depth profiling spectroscopies using slow positrons. Both types of spectroscopies are...

Electron transport and coherence in semiconductor quantum dots and rings

A number of experiments on electron transport and coherence in semiconductor vertical and lateral quantum dots and semiconductor rings is described. Quantum dots are often referred to as "artificial atoms", because of their similarities with real atoms. Examples of such atom-like properties that have been studied, are spin-singlet-triplet...

Nano particles play with electrons: Fundamental research into electron transport inside dye-sensitised solar cells

Were stuck with a chicken-and-egg-problem: solar cells are expensive, so they dont get sold, which keeps the production volume low, so the price remains high.However, within a decade the price of electricity from a solar panel will be comparable to that of conventional mains power, says Dr. Albert Goossens, associate professor at the laboratory...

Connection between noise and quantum correlations in a double quantum dot

We investigate the current and noise characteristics of a double quantum dot system. The strong correlations induced by the Coulomb interaction and the Pauli principle create entangled two-electron states and lead to signatures in the transport properties. We show that the interaction parameter Ø, which measures the admixture of the double...