Quantum-dot single photon sources for quantum information treatment

• Autores: Anna Kamila Nowak
• Directores de la Tesis: José Manuel Calleja Pardo (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ( España ) en 2011
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Carlos Tejedor (presid.), Luisa González Sotos (secret.), Fernando Agulló de Rueda (voc.), Pascale Senellart Mardon (voc.), Andrés Cantarero (voc.), Ewa Popko (voc.), Luis Viña (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Física
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: digitool-uam.greendata.es
• Resumen

  • I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the director of the PhD thesis, Prof. José Manuel Calleja, for introducing me into the world of semiconductor nanostructures and optical spectroscopy. I will always be very grateful to him for mostly personal and friendly treatment in my entire stay and work at the university.

    I would also like to thank my colleagues of the group Eva, Maria, and Dipankar for friendly and successful collaboration. The long hours spent together in the laboratory were a great experience that I really appreciate. Part of the experimental results has been measured in the Laboratory of Ultra-fast Spectroscopy of Prof. Luis Viña. I am indebted with Lola Martin for collaboration in the TRPL measurements and her friendly companionship I received outside the laboratory. I would like to thank Profesors Herko van der Meulen, Luis Viña and Carlos Tejedor for fruitful discussions and help. Their ideas and advices were many times the clue to continue the scientific research in the right direction. Thanks to the other members of the SemicUAM group: Ligia, Francesca, Rita, Alberto, Alejandro, Carlos, Daniele, Dario, Emiliano, Guiherme y Jorge, for the exchange of ideas and nice company.

    I would like to acknowledge to Luisa González, Yolanda González and José Ripalda, and their co-workers, who grew and provided us the quantum dot samples. I am also indebted to Elias for technical support and help in ¿emergency¿ cases; as well to Manolo and José for helium delivery.

    During the past years I had the opportunity to stay at different laboratories and collaborate with other groups to get insight into other fields and techniques. I would like to express my special gratitude to Dr Ewa Popko (Wroclaw University of Technology) for supervising me in the predoctoral studies and encouraging me to study physics at all. I am also grateful to Prof. Grzegorz Karczewki (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw), thanks to whom I got in touch with SemicUAM group, and to his colleagues Dr Valery Kolkovsky and Dr Marek Guziewicz for a ii short training in sample grow and contact annealing. I am also indebted with Prof. Atac Imamoglu, Dr Tomas Voltz and Dr Martin Winger (Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich) for inviting me to their laboratory and sharing ideas and experimental solutions.

    Thanks also to the other members of the department: Ivan, Marta, Javi, Juancho, Maysoun, Olga, Susana, Emma, Nina and Mariano for their cheerful company, help, lunch time and really great time spent together as well outside the university.

    Finally, I would like to thank to all my friends and family, especially to my parents and Esteban for their love and greatest support I have been receiving every day.