Publications by Valentina Troncale

Spectral signatures of high-symmetry quantum dots and effects of symmetry breaking

Marc-André Dupertuis, Elyahou Kapon, Daniel Oberli, Alok Rudra, Valentina Troncale

High symmetry epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) with three or more symmetry planes provide a very promising route for the generation of entangled photons for quantum information applications. The great challenge to fabricate nanoscopic high symmetry QDs is furt ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Tailored-Potential Pyramidal Quantum Dot Heterostructures

Valentina Troncale

Semiconductor quantum dots are usually compared to artificial atoms, because their electronic structure consists of discrete energy levels as for natural atoms. These artificial systems are integrated in solid materials and can be localized with a spatial ...

EPFL2010

Dynamic switching of hole character and single photon polarization using the quantum confined Stark effect in quantum dot-in-dot structures

Elyahou Kapon, Valentina Troncale

The engineering of the three-dimensional (3D) heterostructure potential in GaAs/AlGaAs pyramidal quantum dot-in-dots (DiDs) provides control over the valence band symmetry and hence on the polarization of the emitted photons. We propose a technique for dyn ...

Institute of Physics2010

Excited excitonic states observed in semiconductor quantum dots using polarization resolved optical spectroscopy

Elyahou Kapon, Daniel Oberli, Alok Rudra, Valentina Troncale

We present results on the polarization-resolved photoluminescence emitted from InGaAs/AlGaAs single quantum dots (QDs) grown in inverted tetrahedral pyramids. The emitted light was detected for two mutually perpendicular linear polarization directions in t ...

American Institute of Physics2007

Control of valence band states in pyramidal quantum dot-in-dot semiconductor heterostructures

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Valentina Troncale

AIP American Institute of Physics2007

Optical polarization anisotropy and hole states in pyramidal quantum dots

Elyahou Kapon, Daniel Oberli, Alok Rudra, Valentina Troncale

The authors present a polarization-resolved photoluminescence study of single semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) interconnected to quantum wires, measured both in a top geometry, and in a less conventional cleaved-edge geometry. Strong polarization anisotrop ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2006