TIAN Hai-tao, WANG Lu, WEN Cai etc. Effect of Strain Derived from Embedded InAs Quantum Dots on The Transport Properties of Two-dimensional Gas in Modulation-doped eterostructure[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2014,35(6): 637-642
TIAN Hai-tao, WANG Lu, WEN Cai etc. Effect of Strain Derived from Embedded InAs Quantum Dots on The Transport Properties of Two-dimensional Gas in Modulation-doped eterostructure[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2014,35(6): 637-642 DOI: 10.3788/fgxb20143506.0637.
Effect of Strain Derived from Embedded InAs Quantum Dots on The Transport Properties of Two-dimensional Gas in Modulation-doped eterostructure
Effect of embedding InAs quantum dots (QDs) on the transport properties of two-dimensional gas (2-DEG) in a modulation-doped AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure was investigated. Samples with difference thickness (
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) from QDs layer to 2-DEG were prepared using molecular beam epitaxy. Hall measurements show that the mobility drops dramatically with the decrease of
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ch
and the electron concentration shows a same trend. Strain distributions have been measured by means of geometric phase analysis of the high-resolution transmission electron microscope images. The results show that the strain is focused in the edges and above of InAs QDs which are resulted from the extended lattice distortion. And the non-uniform strain field could be another key factor for the drop of the mobility besides coulomb scattering.
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School of Material Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University
Hubei Key Laboratory of Nutritional Quality and Safety of Agro Products, Institute of Agricultural Quality Standards and Testing Technology Research, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Science
College of Life Science, Yangtze University
Key Laboratory of New Display Materials and Devices, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology