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Optical Characteristics of Multi-Stacked InAs/InAlGaAs Quantum Dots

다층 성장한 InAs/InAlGaAs 양자점의 광학적 특성

  • Oh, Jae-Won (Department of Physics, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Kwon, Se-Ra (Department of Physics, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Ryu, Mee-Yi (Department of Physics, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Jo, Byoung-Gu (Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Soo (Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
  • Received : 2011.08.01
  • Accepted : 2011.10.26
  • Published : 2011.11.30
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Abstract

Self-assembled InAs/InAlGaAs quantum dots (QDs) grown on an InP (001) substrate have been investigated by using photoluminescence (PL) and time-resolved PL measurements. The single layer (QD1) and seven stacks (QD2) of InAs/InAlGaAs QDs grown by the conventional S-K growth mode were used. The PL peak at 10 K was 1,320 nm for both QD1 and QD2. As the temperature increases from 10 to 300 K, the PL peaks for QD1 and QD2 were red-shifted in the amount of 178 and 264 nm, respectively. For QD1, the PL decay increased with increasing emission wavelength from 1,216 to 1,320 nm, reaching a maximum decay time of 1.49 ns at 1,320 nm, and then decreased as the emission wavelength was increased further. However, the PL decay time for QD2 decreased continuously from 1.83 to 1.22 ns as the emission wavelength was increased from 1,130 to 1,600 nm, respectively. These PL and TRPL results for QD2 can be explained by the large variation in the QD size with stacking number caused by the phase separation of InAlGaAs.

자발형성법으로 InP (001) 기판에 성장한 InAs/InAlGaAs 양자점(QDs, quantum dots)의 광학적 특성을 PL (photoluminescence)과 TRPL (time-resolved PL)을 이용하여 분석하였다. InAs 양자점 시료는 single layer InAs/InAlGaAs QDs (QD1)과 7-stacked InAs/InAlGaAs QDs (QD2)를 사용하였다. 저온(10 K)에서 QD1과 QD2 모두 1,320 nm에서 PL 피크가 나타났으며, 온도를 300 K까지 증가하였을 때 각각 178 nm와 264 nm의 적색편이(red-shift)를 보였다. QD1의 PL 소멸시간은 PL 피크인 1,320 nm에서 1.49 ns이고, PL 피크를 중심으로 장파장과 단파장으로 이동하면서 점차 짧아졌다. 그러나 QD2의 PL 소멸시간은 발광파장이 1,130 nm에서 1,600 nm까지 증가할 때 1.83 ns에서 1.22 ns로 점진적으로 짧아졌다. 이러한 QD2의 PL과 TRPL 결과는 평균 양자점의 크기가 InAs/InAlGaAs 층이 증가함에 따라 점차 증가하기 때문으로 single layer인 QD1에 비해 양자점 크기의 변화가 더 크기 때문으로 설명된다.

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