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Quantum-Confined Optical Interband Transitions in 5-Doped Doping Superlattices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

E. F. Schubert ,
T. D. Harris  and
J. E. Cunningham
E. F. Schubert
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
T. D. Harris
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
J. E. Cunningham
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories Crawfords Comer Road Holmdel, New Jersey, 07733
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Abstract

Optical absorption and photoluminescence experiments are performed on GaAs doping superlattices, which have a δ-function-like doping profile of alternating n-type and p-type dopant sheets. Absorption and emission spectra reveal for the first time the clear signature of quantum-confined interband transitions. The peaks of the experimental absorption and luminescence spectra are assigned to calculated energies of quantum-confined transitions with very good agreement. It is shown that the employment of the δ-doping technique results in improved optical properties of doping superlattices.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 145: Symposium A – III-V Heterostructures for Electronic/Photonic Devices , 1989 , 21
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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