Landau levels and shallow donor states in GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum wells at megagauss magnetic fields

Zybert, M.; Marchewka, M.; Sheregii, E. M.; Rickel, D. G.; Betts, J. B.; Balakirev, F. F.; Gordon, M.; Stier, A. V.; Mielke, C. H.; Pfeffer, P.; Zawadzki, W.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.115432

Title: Landau levels and shallow donor states in GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum wells at megagauss magnetic fields

Journal Article · 27 March 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.115432 · OSTI ID:1441306

Zybert, M. ^[1]; Marchewka, M. ^[1]; Sheregii, E. M. ^[1]; Rickel, D. G. ^[2]; Betts, J. B. ^[2]; Balakirev, F. F. ^[2]; Gordon, M. ^[2]; Stier, A. V. ^[2]; Mielke, C. H. ^[2]; Pfeffer, P. ^[3]; Zawadzki, W. ^[3]

Univ. of Rzeszów (Poland). Centre for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Warsaw (Poland). Inst. of Physics

Landau levels and shallow donor states in multiple GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (MQWs) are investigated in this paper by means of the cyclotron resonance at megagauss magnetic fields. Measurements of magneto-optical transitions were performed in pulsed fields up to 140 T and temperatures from 6–300 K. The 14 x 14 P∙p band model for GaAs is used to interpret free-electron transitions in a magnetic field. Temperature behavior of the observed resonant structure indicates, in addition to the free-electron Landau states, contributions of magnetodonor states in the GaAs wells and possibly in the AlGaAs barriers. The magnetodonor energies are calculated using a variational procedure suitable for high magnetic fields and accounting for conduction band nonparabolicity in GaAs. It is shown that the above states, including their spin splitting, allow one to interpret the observed magneto-optical transitions in MQWs in the middle infrared region. Finally, our experimental and theoretical results at very high magnetic fields are consistent with the picture used previously for GaAs/AlGaAs MQWs at lower magnetic fields.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; DMR-1157490

OSTI ID:: 1441306

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1348864

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-27396

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 11; ISSN 2469-9950

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Country of Publication:: United States

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