MBE growth and photoluminescence properties of strained InAsSb/AlSbAs quantum wells

Author

Solov´ev, V.A. ; Terent´ev, Ya.V. ; Toropov, A.A. ; Mel´tser, B.Ya. ; Semenov, A.N. ; Ivanov, S.V. ; Kop´ev, P.S. ; Meyer, J.R.

Author_Institution

A.F. Ioffe Physicotech. Inst., Acad. of Sci., St. Petersburg, Russia

fYear

2002

fDate

15-20 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

131

Lastpage

132

Abstract

Summary form only given. The InAsSb/AlSbAs heterojunction system is promising for mid-infrared (2-5 /spl mu/m) lasers, since it combines the narrow band gap of an InAsSb alloy (< 0.4 eV at 77K) with a large conduction band offset at the hetero-boundary. The use of a strained quantum well (QW) active layer instead of thick InAsSb one is believed to increase the differential gain and reduce considerably the Auger recombination which limits the maximum operating temperature of such lasers. We report on MBE growth and photoluminescence (PL) properties of compressively strained InAsSb/AlSbAs single QW heterostructures. A set of norminally-undoped structures with well widths varying from 4 to 20 nm was grown pseudomorphically on GaSb [001] substrates using a two-stage growth regime. PL measurements of the structures were performed at 80K. Temperature and pump-power dependences of the PL intensities versus various structure parameters will be discussed.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; indium compounds; internal stresses; molecular beam epitaxial growth; optical materials; photoluminescence; semiconductor quantum wells; spectral line intensity; 0.4 eV; 2 to 5 micron; 4 to 20 nm; 77 K; 80 K; GaSb; InAsSb-AlSbAs; InAsSb/AlSbAs single QW heterostructures; MBE growth; PL intensity; photoluminescence; pump-power dependence; structure parameters; temperature dependence; two-stage growth regime; well width; Nanostructures; Physics; Solids;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Molecular Beam Epitaxy, 2002 International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7581-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MBE.2002.1037794

Filename

1037794