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Magnetoluminescence oscillations of a doped (Al,Ga)As/GaAs single heterojunction

Journal Article · · Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter
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  1. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  2. National High Magnetic Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  3. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejon 305-600 (Korea)

We have studied the photoluminescence spectra of a modulation doped (Al,Ga)As/GaAs single heterojunction in magnetic fields to 50 T at 4 K. When an external excitation is introduced to the system, photocreated electrons push the Fermi energy close to the second subband and lead to the formation of a hybridized eigenstate of the second subband (E1) exciton and the first subband (E0) two-dimensional electron state. The conduction-band hybridization enhances nonlinear behavior of magnetoexciton transitions in the optical process. At low fields, the E1 magnetoexciton transition is dominant, because the E1 hole wave-function overlap is larger than that of E0 hole. Beyond the {nu}=2 quantum Hall state, where electron screening becomes negligible, electron-hole attraction is dominant, and holes tend to move to the interface. As a consequence, the photoluminescence oscillator strength switches from the magneto-exciton transition to the lowest-Landau-level subband transition above 13 T. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}

OSTI ID:
295537
Journal Information:
Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter, Journal Name: Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 59; ISSN 0163-1829; ISSN PRBMDO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English