Pierre Petroff

Pierre Petroff 's research is in the field of self-assembled nanostructures using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). His most recent work focuses on the electronic properties of novel hybrid materials, quantum wires, and quantum boxes. In the last ten years, Petroff has contributed pioneering work on the growth of self assembling and self ordering of quantum wires and quantum dots in compounds semiconductors. Through photoluminescence, magneto transport and infrared spectroscopy studies, he has shown the “atom-like” character of the quantum dots energy spectrum for both electrons and holes. Recently he has focused on the electronic structure of coupled quantum dots and on the coupling of quantum dots to microcavities and photonic crystals. Petroff has been working on several applications of quantum dots to devices, including ultra low threshold quantum dots photonic crystal lasers and ultra bright single photons sources.