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Neutral Impurity Disordering of III-V Quantum well Structures for Optoelectronic Integration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

J. H. Marsh ,
S. R. Andrew ,
S. G. Ayling ,
J. Beauvais ,
S. A. Bradshaw ,
A. C. Bryce ,
S. I. Hansen ,
R. M. De La Rue  and
R. W. Glew
J. H. Marsh
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
S. R. Andrew
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
S. G. Ayling
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
J. Beauvais
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
S. A. Bradshaw
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
A. C. Bryce
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
S. I. Hansen
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
R. M. De La Rue
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
R. W. Glew
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
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Abstract

The neutral impurities boron and fluorine have been studied as species for impurity induced disordering. In the GaAs/AlGaAs system fluorine disordered multiple quantum well waveguide structures exhibited blue shifts of up to 100 meV in the absorption edge (representing complete disordering) accompanied by substantial changes, > 1%, in the refractive index. The absorption coefficient in partially disordered structures at near band-edge wavelengths was as low as 4.7 dB cm−1. Integrated extended cavity lasers have been fabricated with low losses (19 ± 8.4 dB cm−1) in the passive waveguide. Disordering of GalnAs/AlGalnAs and GalnAs/GalnAsP quantum well structures lattice matched to InP has also been investigated. The temperature stability of as-grown phosphorus-quaternary material is poor, with blue shifts of the exciton peak occuring at temperatures greater than 500°C, but the aluminium-quaternary is stable to at least 650°C. Large blue shifts (up to 90 meV for phosphorus quaternary and 45 meV for aluminium quaternary samples) were observed in the fluorine-implanted samples. The estimated loss in fluorine-disordered phosphorus quaternary samples is typically around 8 dB cm“−1.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 240: Symposium E – Advanced III-V Compound Semiconductor Growth, Processing and Devices , 1991 , 679
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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