Room-temperature 1.6 µm light emission from InAs/GaAs quantum dots with a thin GaAsSb cap layer

It is demonstrated that the emission of InAs quantum dots (QDs) capped with GaAsSb can be extended from 1.28 to 1.6 µm by increasing the Sb composition of the capping layer from 14% to 26%. Photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy is applied to investigate the nature of this large redshift. The dom...

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Autores: Liu, H. Y., Steer, M. J., Badcock, T. J., Mowbray, D. J., Skolnick, M. S., Suárez Arias, Ferrán, Ng, J. S., Hopkinson, M., David, J. P. R.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/18319
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/18319
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Indium compounds
Gallium arsenide
III-V semiconductors
Semiconductor quantum dots
Photoluminescence
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Sumario:It is demonstrated that the emission of InAs quantum dots (QDs) capped with GaAsSb can be extended from 1.28 to 1.6 µm by increasing the Sb composition of the capping layer from 14% to 26%. Photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy is applied to investigate the nature of this large redshift. The dominant mechanism is shown to be the formation of a type-II transition between an electron state in the InAs QDs and a hole state in the GaAsSb capping layer. The prospects for using these structures to fabricate 1.55 µm injection lasers are discussed.