Electronic coupling and thermal relaxation in self-assembled InAs quantum dot superlattices



Título del documento: Electronic coupling and thermal relaxation in self-assembled InAs quantum dot superlattices
Revista: Brazilian journal of physics
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000159234
ISSN: 0103-9733
Autores: 1




Instituciones: 1Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto de Física, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo. Brasil
2Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne. Francia
Año:
Periodo: Dic
Volumen: 29
Número: 4
Paginación: 738-741
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico
Resumen en inglés We report optical and structural characterizations of InAs quantum dot superlattices grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs (001). Cross-sectional electron microscopy imaging reveals ~ 20 nm diameter InAs islands well aligned along the growth direction. Low temperature photoluminescence spectra exhibit a clear redshift with decreasing island vertical separation, as a result of electronic coupling between stacked dots, given that the larger shift is obtained for 70 Å spacing. At high excitation power, the photoluminescence spectra show a doublet structure corresponding to coupled and uncoupled quantum dot states. The temperature dependence of the photoluminescence indicates that thermionic emission activation energy is much lower than the estimated barrier height. Such a difference is explained by the presence of non-radiative recombination centers due to strain relaxation and In segregation
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Física de materia condensada,
Optica,
Semiconductores,
Acoplamiento electrónico,
Relajación térmica,
Puntos cuánticos,
Superredes,
Caracterización óptica
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Condensed matter physics,
Optics,
Semiconductors,
Electronic coupling,
Thermal relaxation,
Quantum dots,
Superlattices,
Optical characterization
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