The authors investigated a set of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) formed by molecular beam epitaxy at low temperature (LT, 250 °C) and postgrowth annealing. A QD photoluminescence (PL) peak around 1.01 eV was observed. The PL efficiency quickly quenches between 6 and 40 K due to the tunneling out of the QD into traps within the GaAs barrier. The PL efficiency increases by a factor of 45–280 when exciting below the GaAs band gap, directly into the InAs QD layer. This points towards good optical quality QDs, which are embedded in a LT-GaAs barrier with a high trapping efficiency.
Published in:
Applied Physics Letters
(Volume:90
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Issue:
11
)
Date of Publication:
Mar 2007
- Page(s):
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112109
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112109-3
- ISSN :
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0003-6951
- Digital Object Identifier :
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10.1063/1.2713803
- Product Type:
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Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
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18 June 2009
- Issue Date :
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Mar 2007