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Doctoral Thesis Electronic, Magnetic and Transport Properties of Graphene Quantum Dots With Charged Impurities(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Polat, Mustafa; Güçlü, Alev DevrimIn this thesis, electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of armchair edged hexagonal and zigzag edged triangular graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are investigated in the presence of charged impurities. In this manner, a special attention has been paid to the Coulomb impurity problem in these structures. The collapse of the wave functions starting from the 1S$_{1/2}$ state is studied in the presence of not only the Coulomb impurity but also in the presence of a Coulomb charged vacancy with the help of tight-binding and extended mean-field Hubbard (MFH) models. Here, we report an interaction induced renormalization of the critical coupling constant ($\beta_{c}$). In addition, our results suggest that the induced charge for the interacting fermions is smaller than that of the non-interacting fermions. Furthermore, the transport coefficients reveal two different characteristics of the subcritical ($\beta$ $<$ $\beta_{c}$) and supercritical ($\beta$ $>$ $\beta_{c}$) regimes. As for the charged vacancy, the bare carbon vacancy induces a local magnetic moment in the hexagonal GQDs, but it is suppressed when the vacancy is charged with the subcritical Coulomb potential. Except the pristine cases of the GQDs, we numerically study a Coulomb impurity problem for the interacting fermions restricted in disordered hexagonal GQDs. In the presence of randomly distributed lattice defects and spatial potential fluctuations induced by Gaussian impurities, the response of $\beta_{c}$ for atomic collapse is mainly investigated by local density of states (LDOS) calculations within the MFH model. We find that both types of disorder cause an amplification of the critical threshold. As for the zigzag edged triangular GQDs, in the presence of the bare vacancy, we exactly obtain the spin splitting with the help of LDOS calculations in the energy spectrums, which are dominated by the edge states around the Fermi level. Similar to the hexagonal GQDs, if the vacancy is charged, the local magnetic moment disappears in these GQDs.Doctoral Thesis Single-Photon Generation From Defects and Manipulation With Nanostructures(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Özçeri İyikanat, Elif; Aygün, Gülnur; Tarhan, Enver; Tarhan, Enver; Aygün Özyüzer, GülnurSingle-photon sources are essential components for several applications in the field of quantum information technologies, such as quantum cryptology and quantum computation. To this aim, efficient generation and detection of single-photons are the crucial to be achieved. Among single-photon sources that are extensively studied in the literature, defect centers in solid are very promising due to their room temperature operation and their stability. The aim of this thesis is to generate single photons at room temperature and control their optical properties by nanostructures. Single-photon emission from TMDCs originates from localized weakly bound excitons at cryogenic temperatures due to their small exciton binding energies. However, room temperature SP emission from WS2 can be obtained by creatingWO3 defects. In our study, room temperature emission from defects in WO3 was investigated. Density functional theory calculations showed that the source of the emission can be oxygen defects. Additionally, the emission was brightened by plasmonic gold nanoparticles. Furthermore, defects in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is offered as an efficient room temperature SPS. HBN is a wide bandgap 2D material, in which defect centers create discrete energy level to generate single photons. In our study, reversible single-photon emission control from defects in hBN was demonstrated by Förster-like resonance energy transfer between the single-photon emitter and a graphene layer. To this aim an ionic liquid based device structure was used.Doctoral Thesis Development of Colloidal Alloyed Nanocrystals for Quantum Dot Based Device Applications(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Sevim Ünlütürk, Seçil; Özçelik, Serdar; Varlıklı, CananQuantum dots (QDs) are very attractive luminescent semiconducting nanoparticles. In this study, our aim was to synthesize Cd and/or Zn based QDs with tunable optical properties by the particle size and the alloy composition. Colloidal water dispersible Mn-doped and nondoped ZnSxSe1-x QDs were synthesized by the one-pot aqueous method. Optical measurements indicate that photoluminescent properties are strongly depended on the capping agent. While MPA capped QDs showed an emission peak in the blue region, others did not show any photoluminescence at all. Mn doping up to 10% resulted in no significant effect on the optical spectra. However structural characterizations, EPR and XRD, supported that Mn ions were bounded to the 220 and 311 facets of QD. ZnxCd1-xSySe1-y quaternary nanoalloys were synthesized by using a modified two-phase approach for the first time in the literature. Optical properties of highly luminescent ZnxCd1-xSySe1-y nanoalloys were tuned from blue to yellow by the particle size, the alloy composition, and thickness of shell layer. The reactivity of the reactants, initial mole ratios, and other reaction parameters was adjusted to control alloy composition and alloy type: homogeneous and gradient. The reaction time controls the size of particles. The PL QE (up to 52%) and lifetimes (about 25 ns) were found similar regardless of core and core-shell nanoalloys. MicroPL measurements were carried out on ZnxCd1-xSySe1-y nanoalloys by fiber spectrometer integrated to confocal microscope. Photobleaching and blue-shifting, about 6 nm, were observed in the microPL spectra. Photobleaching times and rate constants obtained from single exponential decay curves showed that purification and exposure time are strongly effective. Additionally, the power the excitation light is essential that below 11 μW, photobleaching slows down, and at 2 μW there is no photobleaching. Scale-up methods with high-volume batch and flow reactor were used to synthesize CdTe and ZnxCd1-xSySe1-y QDs. LEFETs were fabricated with TUBITAK support in collaboration with Heidelberg University. PbS QDs were used as emitting material at the bottom contact top-gate unipolar LEFETs in which uniform electroluminescence was obtained.Doctoral Thesis Electronic, Magnetic and Optical Properties of Disordered Graphene Quantum Dots(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Altıntaş, Abdulmenaf; Güçlü, Alev DevrimIn this thesis, we theoretically investigate electronic, magnetic and optical properties of disordered graphene quantum dots. The numerical calculations are performed using a combination of tight-binding, mean-field Hubbard and configuration interaction methods. We focus on the effects of long-range disorder and electron-electron interactions on the optical properties and the effects of atomic defect related short-range disorders and electron-electron interactions on Anderson type localization and the magnetic properties of hexagonal armchair graphene quantum dots. For the case of long-range disorder, we show that, when the electron-hole puddles are present, tight-binding method gives a poor description of the low-energy absorption spectra compared to meanfield and configuration interaction calculation results. As the size of the graphene quantum dot is increased, the universal optical conductivity limit can be observed in the absorption spectrum. When disorder is present, calculated absorption spectrum approaches the experimental results for isolated monolayer of graphene sheet. On the other hand, for the case of short-range related disorder, we observe that randomly distributed defects with concentrations between 1-5% of the total number of atoms leads to electronic localization alongside magnetic puddle-like structures. We show that localization length is not affected by magnetization if there is an even distribution of defects between the two sublattices of the honeycomb lattice. However, for an uneven distributions, localization is found to be significantly enhanced.