Ground and Excited States Energy in InAs Quantum Dots in a Well InGaAs/GaAs Structures

This paper presents the photoluminescence study at 80 K and scanning photoluminescence spectroscopy investigation of the ground and multiexcited states at 80 and 300 K in InAs quantum dots (QDs) inserted in symmetric In0.15Ga0.85As/GaAs QW structures created at different QD growth temperatures. It i...

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Autores: Erick Velázquez-Lozada, Juan M. Quino-Cerdan, Josué I. Espinosa-Cisneros
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:México
Institución:Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Repositorio:Redalyc-IPN
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:61426384001
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=61426384001
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ingeniería
QD sizes
ground state
growth temperatures
multi excited state energy
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Sumario:This paper presents the photoluminescence study at 80 K and scanning photoluminescence spectroscopy investigation of the ground and multiexcited states at 80 and 300 K in InAs quantum dots (QDs) inserted in symmetric In0.15Ga0.85As/GaAs QW structures created at different QD growth temperatures. It is shown that some of the structures investigated exhibit a spatial long range variation of the average QD size in the QD ensemble across the sample. This long range QD size inhomogeneity was used for an investigation of the multiexcited state energy trend versus ground state energy (or QD sizes). Experimental results were compared with the electron-hole level energy trend versus QD size predicted theoretically on the base of the 8-band k.p approach. Some correlation between experimental and theoretical results has been revealed and discussed.