The Kondo effect is an interesting topic and I would like to study this phenomenon experimentally in colloidal quantum dots, of course, if this were possible.
Dear Saeideh Hosseini, I don't see how these references on metallic nanorods and particles relate to the original question about studying Kondo physics in DMS quantum dots.
@OP: There will have to be some signature of Kondo physics in your quantum dots. And, normally, Kondo physics depends on the interaction of magnetic impurities with a metallic host.
The work I am aware of involving semiconductor quantum dots usually involves transport measurements under circumstances where the number of electrons in the dot and the coupling to the metallic leads (typically 2DEG) are controlled by gate electrodes in a lithographic 2DEG structure. It is then the QD with an odd number of electrons which forms the impurity and the leads which form the metallic host.
If I am not mistaken, you would want to characterize the dopants of DMSses as Kondo impurities? Are you sure that there is something to expect? (If the magnetic dopant is also an electrical dopant generating a metallic DOS, is it realistic not to be in an inter site exchange dominated regime?) And again, what would be your probe of Kondo physics, and how to discriminate this from other effects?
Sounds like more than one challenge to me!! Good luck!
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