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http://dx.doi.org/10.3740/MRSK.2009.19.7.356

Photoluminescence Characteristics of InAs Quantum Dots Grown on AlAs Epitaxial Layer  

Kim, Ki-Hong (Department of visual optics, Kyungwoon University)
Sim, Jun-Hyoung (Department of physics, Yeungnam University)
Bae, In-Ho (Department of physics, Yeungnam University)
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Korean Journal of Materials Research / v.19, no.7, 2009 , pp. 356-361 More about this Journal
Abstract
The optical characterization of self-assembled InAs/AlAs Quantum Dots(QD) grown by MBE(Molecular Beam Epitaxy) was investigated by using Photoluminescence(PL) spectroscopy. The influence of thin AlAs barrier on QDs were carried out by utilizing a pumping beam that has lower energy than that of the AlAs barrier. This provides the evidence for the tunneling of carriers from the GaAs layer, which results in a strong QD intensity compared to the GaAs at the 16 K PL spectrum. The presence of two QDs signals were found to be associated with the ground-states transitions from QDs with a bimodal size distribution made by the excitation power-dependent PL. From the temperature-dependent PL, the rapid red shift of the peak emission that was related to the QD2 from the increasing temperature was attributed to the coherence between the QDs of bimodal size distribution. A red shift of the PL peak of QDs emission and the reduction of the FWHM(Full Width at Half Maximum) were observed when the annealing temperatures ranged from 500 $^{\circ}C$ to 750 $^{\circ}C$, which indicates that the interdiffusion between the dots and the capping layer was caused by an improvement in the uniformity size of the QDs.
Keywords
InAs/AlAs; quantum dot(QD); photoluminescence(PL);
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