Optical properties of self-assembled ZnTe quantum dots grown by molecular-beam epitaxy

Journal Article · Tue Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 2005 · Journal of Applied Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1834985· OSTI ID:20665083

Yang, C S; Lai, Y J; Chou, W C; Chen, W K; Lee, M C; Kuo, M C; Lee, J; Shen, J L; Jang, D J; Cheng, Y C ^[1]

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1. Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan 30010 (China)

The morphology and the size-dependent photoluminescence (PL) spectra of the type-II ZnTe quantum dots (QDs) grown in a ZnSe matrix were obtained. The coverage of ZnTe varied from 2.5 to 3.5 monolayers (MLs). The PL peak energy decreased as the dot size increased. Excitation power and temperature-dependent PL spectra are used to characterize the optical properties of the ZnTe quantum dots. For 2.5- and 3.0-ML samples, the PL peak energy decreased monotonically as the temperature increased. However, for the 3.5-ML sample, the PL peak energy was initially blueshifted and then redshifted as the temperature increased above 40 K. Carrier thermalization and carrier transfer between QDs are used to explain the experimental data. A model of temperature-dependent linewidth broadening is employed to fit the high-temperature data. The activation energy, which was found by the simple PL intensity quenching model, of the 2.5, 3.0, and 3.5 MLs were determined to be 6.35, 9.40, and 18.87 meV, respectively.

• OSTI ID: 20665083
• Journal Information: Journal of Applied Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Applied Physics Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 97; ISSN JAPIAU; ISSN 0021-8979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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EXPERIMENTAL DATA
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MEV RANGE 01-10
MEV RANGE 10-100
MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY
MORPHOLOGY
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
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QUANTUM DOTS
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ZINC SELENIDES
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