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Thermally-activated effects on photoluminescence line shape of InAs/GaAs quantum dot heterosystems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2007

Jiunn-Chyi Lee ,
Yeu-Jent Hu ,
Ya-Fen Wu ,
Jia-Hui Fang ,
Tzer-En Nee ,
Jen-Cheng Wang  and
Hui-Tang Shen
Jiunn-Chyi Lee*
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technology and Science Institute of Northern Taiwan, No. 2, Xueyuan Rd., Peitou, 112 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Yeu-Jent Hu
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technology and Science Institute of Northern Taiwan, No. 2, Xueyuan Rd., Peitou, 112 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Ya-Fen Wu
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technology and Science Institute of Northern Taiwan, No. 2, Xueyuan Rd., Peitou, 112 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Jia-Hui Fang
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technology and Science Institute of Northern Taiwan, No. 2, Xueyuan Rd., Peitou, 112 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tzer-En Nee
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Chang Gung University, No. 259, Wenhwa 1st Rd., Kweishan, 333 Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Jen-Cheng Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Chang Gung University, No. 259, Wenhwa 1st Rd., Kweishan, 333 Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Hui-Tang Shen
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Chang Gung University, No. 259, Wenhwa 1st Rd., Kweishan, 333 Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
*
gclee@tsint.edu.tw
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Abstract

We investigate the temperature dependence of photoluminescence (PL) properties of InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) heterostructures. The temperature dependence of the InAs exciton energy and linewidth is found to display a significant difference due to the different dot size distribution. We propose a model, which takes into account the dot size distribution, state filling effect, carrier thermal escaping and retrapping, and electron-phonon scattering, to explain the carriers transferring mechanisms in the QD system. The experimental results are reproduced well by our model. Sample with lower dot size uniformity reveals evident thermal redistribution effect among dots, but the effect is weak for sample with higher dot size uniformity and is overcome by the electron-phonon scattering, which is consistent with the observed monotonically increasing linewidth of PL spectra with temperature.

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The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , April 2007 , pp. 21 - 25
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© EDP Sciences, 2007

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