Abstract
The study of supercrystals made of periodically arranged semiconductor quantum dots is essential for the advancement of emerging nanophotonics technologies. By combining the strong spatial confinement of elementary excitations inside quantum dots and exceptional design flexibility, quantum-dot supercrystals provide broad opportunities for engineering desired optical responses and developing superior light manipulation techniques on the nanoscale. Here we suggest tailoring the energy spectrum and wave functions of the supercrystals' collective excitations through the variation of different structural and material parameters. In particular, by calculating the excitonic spectra of quantum dots assembled in two-dimensional Bravais lattices we demonstrate a wide variety of spectrum transformation scenarios upon alterations in the quantum dot arrangement. This feature offers unprecedented control over the supercrystal's electromagnetic properties and enables the development of new nanophotonics materials and devices.
Highlights
The study of supercrystals made of periodically arranged semiconductor quantum dots is essential for the advancement of emerging nanophotonics technologies
One of the most powerful tools for studying collective excitations in the ensembles of periodically arranged semiconductor quantum dots is the method of modeling exciton states in molecular crystals[63,64]
If H^n is the Hamiltonian of an isolated quantum dot n, whose interaction with dot m is described by operator V^nm, the Hamiltonian of the supercrystal’s collective excitations can be written in the form
Summary
The study of supercrystals made of periodically arranged semiconductor quantum dots is essential for the advancement of emerging nanophotonics technologies. By calculating the excitonic spectra of quantum dots assembled in two-dimensional Bravais lattices we demonstrate a wide variety of spectrum transformation scenarios upon alterations in the quantum dot arrangement This feature offers unprecedented control over the supercrystal’s electromagnetic properties and enables the development of new nanophotonics materials and devices. The field of photonics has been significantly enriched by the successful design and fabrication of photonic crystals[1,2,3] and optical metamaterials[4,5,6] These man-made structures acquire their physical properties not so much due to their composition as owing to the periodic arrangement or design of the subwavelength constituent parts. Our results suggests quantum-dot supercrystals as unique material base for the new-generation nanophotonics devices
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