Time-resolved high-temperature detection with single charge resolution of holes tunneling into many-particle quantum dot states

We demonstrate detection of many-particle hole states in InAs/GaAs quantum dots with single charge resolution up to a temperature of 75 K. Capacitance-voltage measurements as well as time-resolved current measurements in an adjacent two-dimensional hole gas are used to determine the emission and capture time constants from 4 K up to 130 K. A transition from pure tunneling to thermally assisted tunneling is observed with increasing temperature. An equivalent circuit model gives access to the energy level splittings of the many-particle hole states and explains the broadening of the peaks at higher temperatures.