Intersubband absorption at 1.5-3.5 um in GaN/AlN multiple quantum wells grown by molecular beam epitaxy on sapphire
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2007

Ten and twenty period multiple quantum well structures with 1.5-5.4 nm GaN wells and 1.2-5.1 nm AlN barriers were grown on sapphire by molecular beam epitaxy. Layer thicknesses were determined by X-ray diffraction measurements and simulations. Reciprocal space mapping showed that the relaxation of the quantum well layers was independent of the buffer layer thickness. Intersubband absorption was observed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy at 1.5-3.5 m. Monolayer fluctuations in the quantum well width induced multiple peaks in spectra, which were well fitted to Lorentzian peaks of only 57 meV linewidth. Samples were very homogeneous as the absorption peak energy varied less than 1% along 4 cm on 2 inch wafers. The intersubband transition energies were calculated considering the conduction-band nonparabolicity, built-in fields, strain, and many-body effects. The calculation and comparison to the fitted Lorentzian peak energies indicated a moderate blueshift due to many-body effects. It was shown by both experiments and calculations that the AlN barrier width affects the intersubband transition energy

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Författare

Xinju Liu

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Mikrovågselektronik

Petter Holmström

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Sophia University

Peter Jänes

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Lars Thylén

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Thorvald Andersson

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Mikrovågselektronik

Physica Status Solidi (B): Basic Research

0370-1972 (ISSN) 1521-3951 (eISSN)

Vol. 244 8 2892-2905

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DOI

10.1002/pssb.200675606

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