Quantum cascade emission in the III-nitride material system designed with effective interface grading
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (United States)
- Corning Incorporated, Corning, New York 14831 (United States)
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 (United States)
We report the realization of quantum cascade (QC) light emission in the III-nitride material system, designed with effective interface grading (EIG). EIG induces a continuous transition between wells and barriers in the quantum confinement, which alters the eigenstate system and even delocalizes the states with higher energy. Fully transverse-magnetic spontaneous emission is observed from the fabricated III-nitride QC structure, with a center wavelength of ∼4.9 μm and a full width at half maximum of ∼110 meV, both in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions. A multi-peak photo-response spectrum is also measured from the QC structure, which again agrees well with theoretical calculations and verifies the effects of EIG.
- OSTI ID:
- 22482168
- Journal Information:
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 13; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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