D. Gammon et al., NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPY IN SINGLE QUANTUM DOTS - NANOSCOPIC RAMAN-SCATTERING AND NUCLEAR-MAGNETIC-RESONANCE, Science, 277(5322), 1997, pp. 85-88
Resonant Raman and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies from sing
le gallium arsenide quantum dots are demonstrated. The nuclei were pro
bed through changes in the optical spectra of the quantum dot exciton
arising from exciton-nuclear interactions. This approach allowed the a
pplication of optical spectroscopy with its extremely high sensitivity
and selectivity. The experiments had a lateral spatial resolution of
about 10 nanometers and probe a volume that was five orders of magnitu
de smaller than that of previous semiconductor nuclear spectroscopic s
tudies.