Temperature-insensitive optical alignment of the exciton in nanowire-embedded GaN quantum dots
Résumé
We report on the exciton spin dynamics of nanowire-embedded GaN/AlN quantum dots (QDs) investigated by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. Under a linearly polarized quasiresonant excitation, we evidence the quenching of the exciton spin relaxation and a temperature-insensitive degree of the exciton linear polarization, demonstrating the robustness of the optical alignment of the exciton spin in these nanowire-embedded QDs. A detailed examination of the luminescence polarization angular dependence shows orthogonal linear exciton eigenstates