Published January 4, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Interband transitions in strained InGaAs/AlAsSb multiple-quantum-well structures

  • 1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba Central 2-1, Tsukuba 305-8568 (Japan)

Description

Room temperature photoreflectance (PR) was performed on strained InxGa1-xAs/AlAsSb quantum wells (QWs) grown on InP substrates. We observed clear and well-resolved structures, which could be attributed to the interband optical transitions originating in the QWs. By comparing the transition energies measured from the PR spectra with those theoretically calculated from the confined energy levels in the QWs, we confirmed that the value of the conduction band offset of In0.8Ga0.2As/AlAsSb was close to 1.7 eV and the nonparabolicity of the conduction band of In0.8Ga0.2As was between 2.25 and 2.5, which is higher than that obtained using a three-band model.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1199
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 199-200
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
29. international conference on the physics of semiconductors
Dates
27 Jul - 1 Aug 2008
Place
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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(c) 2009 American Institute of Physics