PARTICLE LOCALIZATION AND PHONON SIDE-BAND IN GAAS/ALXGA1-XAS MULTIPLE QUANTUM-WELLS

被引:54
作者
BRENER, I
OLSZAKIER, M
COHEN, E
EHRENFREUND, E
RON, A
PFEIFFER, L
机构
[1] TECHNION ISRAEL INST TECHNOL, INST SOLID STATE, IL-32000 HAIFA, ISRAEL
[2] TECHNION ISRAEL INST TECHNOL, DEPT PHYS, IL-32000 HAIFA, ISRAEL
[3] AT&T BELL LABS, MURRAY HILL, NJ 07974 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1992年 / 46卷 / 12期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.46.7927
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We use time-resolved spectroscopy of the LO-phonon sidebands to study the in-plane localization of carriers and excitons in undoped GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs multiple quantum wells at low temperatures. We find three distinct populations contributing to the radiative recombination (excluding shallow background impurities): (a) weakly localized excitons, their localization dimension being larger than the exciton Bohr radius, (b) tightly localized excitons, (c) separately localized electrons and holes that decay radiatively on a microsecond time scale.
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页码:7927 / 7930
页数:4
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