Thermal peculiarity of AlAs-capped InAs quantum dots in a GaAs matrix

Journal Article · Sat Nov 15 04:00:00 EST 2008 · Journal of Applied Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3020521· OSTI ID:21185930

Dorogan, V G; Mazur, Yu I; Lee, J H; Wang, Zh M; Ware, M E; Salamo, G J ^[1]

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1. Arkansas Institute for Nanoscale Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 (United States)

GaAs and AlAs thin capping layers as well as postgrowth rapid thermal annealing (RTA) were applied to InAs quantum dots (QDs) grown by molecular beam epitaxy to study the tunability of optical properties of QDs by photoluminescence (PL) methods. The PL of AlAs-capped QDs shows double-peak structure, as opposed to GaAs-capped QDs, which is due to the formation of two families of QDs in the AlAs-capped sample confirmed by the power dependent PL measurements. The PL peak of the GaAs-capped samples subjected to RTA showed blueshift and narrowing with an increase in RTA temperature. This is the result of thermally enhanced In-Ga intermixing. More complex changes in the PL spectrum of AlAs-capped QDs during the RTA procedure were found and explained by the different In compositions in two branches of QDs. The features observed in the temperature dependences of PL peak energy of GaAs- and AlAs-capped samples were interpreted in terms of thermal escape of carriers from smaller QDs with further redistribution between larger QDs and different InAs content in two families of QDs.

• OSTI ID: 21185930
• Journal Information: Journal of Applied Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Applied Physics Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 104; ISSN JAPIAU; ISSN 0021-8979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
ALUMINIUM ARSENIDES
ANNEALING
CHARGE CARRIERS
CRYSTAL GROWTH
GALLIUM ARSENIDES
INDIUM ARSENIDES
LAYERS
MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PHOTOLUMINESCENCE
QUANTUM DOTS
SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
SPECTRAL SHIFT
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
THIN FILMS