Fabrication and tuning of plasmonic optical nanoantennas around droplet epitaxy quantum dots by cathodoluminescence

Abstract

We use cathodoluminescence to locate droplet epitaxy quantum dots with a precision less than or similar to 50 nm before fabricating nanoantennas in their vicinity by electron-beam lithography. Cathodoluminescence is further used to evidence the effect of the antennas as a function of their length on the light emitted by the dot. Experimental results are in good agreement with numerical simulations of the structures. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.