We have investigated the growth conditions necessary to achieve strong room temperature emission at 1.3 µm for InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) using conventional solid source molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). A relatively high substrate temperature and very low growth rate (LGR) result in long wavelength emission with a small linewidth of only 24 meV. Atomic Force Micrographs obtained from uncapped samples reveal several differences between the LGRQDs and those grown at higher growth rates. The former are larger, more uniform in size and their density is lower by a factor of about 4. LGRQDs have been incorporated in p-i-n structures and strong room temperature electroluminescence detected. The light output of the QD p-i-n diodes is found to be significantly higher than a quantum well (QW) sample at least for current densities up to 0.5 kAcm-2.
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