WEI Guo-hua, WANG Bin, LI Jun-mei, CAO Xue-wei, ZHANG Cun-zhou, XU Xiao-xuan. Temperature Dependence of the Photoluminescence Properties and the Research on the Mechanism of In<sub>0.2</sub>Ga<sub>0.8</sub>As/GaAs Single Quantum Well[J]. 发光学报, 2010,31(5): 619-623
WEI Guo-hua, WANG Bin, LI Jun-mei, CAO Xue-wei, ZHANG Cun-zhou, XU Xiao-xuan. Temperature Dependence of the Photoluminescence Properties and the Research on the Mechanism of In<sub>0.2</sub>Ga<sub>0.8</sub>As/GaAs Single Quantum Well[J]. 发光学报, 2010,31(5): 619-623DOI:
Temperature Dependence of the Photoluminescence Properties and the Research on the Mechanism of In0.2Ga0.8As/GaAs Single Quantum Well
The technique of photoluminescence(PL) spectra is an important method for studying the properties of semiconductors and quantum wells since its high sensitiveness
convenience and non-destructive. This technique was used to study the single quantum well(QW) of In
0.2
Ga
0.8
As/GaAs in this paper.Different PL spectra were reported under different temperature
which ranged from 125 K to 260 K for a certain sample
and the PL spectra of the samples with different quantum well width were also reported.The paper reported that
for a certain sample
the peak of its PL spectra moved towards long wavelengh ranges with the temperature increa-sing
which means that the band gap of the SQW becomes narrower. Detail consideration suggested that this property was able to be described by the equation of Varshni for the bulk materials. So
the SQW is similar to its bulk material at this point. This was mainly because within certain thickness of SQW
there was no lattice misfit dislocation
and the fundamental structure of the energy gap will not change. It was also reported that
at certain temperature
the narrower was the SQW
the wider was its band gap. We performed a brief calculation by solve Schrdinger equation
and found that the experimental result fitted to the theoretical calculation.The relationship between full width at half maximum (FWHM) of PL peak and temperature of a certain sample and the relationship between (FWHM) and SQW width of different samples were also reported
at the same time
theoretical explanation was presented for these phenomenon.
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