Room-temperature electroluminescence is reported from InAsSb multiple-quantum-well light-emitting diodes. The diodes exhibited emission in the mid-infrared peaking near 4 m. The spectral dependence on injection current at 4 K was investigated and two transitions were identified, centered at 4.05 and 3.50 m, which are associated with the eigenstates of the confined holes inside the quantum well. The use of an Sb predeposition and As flux surface exposure during epitaxial growth was observed to have a major effect on the electroluminescence output.
The amplitudes of terahertz radiation are measured for a series of GaAs surface intrinsic-N(+) structures with various built-in surface electric fields as the bias. As the surface field is lower than the so-called "critical electric field" related with the energy difference between the Gamma to L valley of the semiconductor, the amplitude is proportional to the product of the surface field and the number of photo-excited carriers. As the surface field exceeds the critical field, the amplitude is independent of the surface field but proportional to the product of the critical field and the number of the photo-excited carriers.
Strained GaAsSb/GaAs quantum wells grown on GaAs substrate, which exhibit a staggered type41 band alignment, are of interest for infrared optoelectronic devices applications, because of its optical interband transitions occur at longer wavelengths than those corresponding to the fundamental band gap energies of each constituent. The quantum wells have been used successfully to fabricate laser diodes, which have emerged to be one of the candidates for 1 . 3~ laser source on GaAs substrate [l]. In this study, by using Sb monomer to deposit GaAsSb layer, we demonstrate a high quality low-threshold GaAsSb/GaAs double quantum well laser diode.
Using the Z-scan technique with 532 nm 19 ps laser pulses separated by two time intervals τ's (0.1 s and 1.0 s) sandwiching the mass diffusion time constant of the CHClO + 1,2 dichloroethane solution, we investigate short-pulse-induced solute migration in the sample by measuring its transmittance change with τ variation. Preparing the sample at two concentrations, we find that τ reduction, from 1.0 s to 0.1 s, increases its transmittance when input pulse energy ε exceeds a threshold ε, which is lower for the dilute solution than the concentrated one. At two ε's above ε for the dilute solution, τ-reduction-induced transmittance increase in the dilute solution, as compared to that in the concentrated solution, is more at the lower ε and less at the higher ε. This differs from continuous-wave-driven thermal diffusion which always causes a larger transmittance increase in the concentrated solution by inducing a larger temperature gradient. From this study, we predict that solute migration induced by short pulses at 1064 nm is one of the undesired heating effects occurring when this solution is used to simultaneously Q-switch and mode-lock Nd:YAG lasers.
The band offset of the type-ll GaAso.,Sbo.,1GaAs quantum well (Qw) is studied. We propose an extrapolation method to remove the band-bending effect and determine the flat-band transition energy of the type-I1 QW from photoluminescence (PL) measurement. Then, we compare the PL peak energies of the type-II GaAso.+bo,,/GaAs QW and the type4 Alo.,G%,7As/ GaAso.,Sbo,l QW to obtain the strained band gap energy of GaAso.7Sbo.3 and the valence-band-offset ratio of the type-ll QW. The obtained band gap energy and valence-band-offset ratio are 1.01 eV and 1.15. GaAsSbiGaAs double-quantum-well lasers were also grown and fabricated. The laser demonstrates a very low threshold current density of 210 Ncm' with an emission wavelength of 1.28pm.
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