AlGaAs/GaAs多量子阱结构中受激载流子的飞秒弛豫特性

本文介绍采用飞秒饱和吸收测量技术研究Al_xGa_(1-x)As/GaAs多量子阱结构中受激载流子的超快弛豫特性.当激发光子能量大于样品势垒层能带隙时,受激产生于势垒层和势阱层连续态中的载流子分别在130和30fs时间内离开受激态,弛豫至准平衡态.势垒中的载流子被捕至势阱束缚态的情况主要发生于热载流子的冷却和复合过程的皮秒级时间内.     

Model calculations of diffusion limited trapping dynamics in quantum well laser structures

We present a phenomenological theoretical model to treat the trapping of carriers into quantum wells of semiconductor laser structures. We consider explicitely the transport within the barrier layers by solving the continuity equation with the appropriate boundary conditions taking into account surface recombination, radiative and nonradiative recombination in the barrier layers and trapping of carriers into the quantum wells. The experimental findings for the trapping dynamics in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well structures can be consistently interpreted by the model calculations.     

Photoexcited carrier dynamics in aligned InAs/GaAs quantum dots grown on strain-relaxed InGaAs layers

Carrier dynamics in aligned InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) grown on cross-hatched patterns induced by metastable In_xGa_1−xAs layers have been studied by time-resolved photoluminescence. The low-temperature carrier lifetimes were found to be of the order of 100–200 ps and determined by carrier trapping and nonradiative recombination. Comparisons with control “nonaligned” InAs QDs show remarkable differences in dependence of peak PL intensities on excitation power, and in PL decay times dependences on both temperature and excitation intensities. Possible origin of traps, which determine the carrier lifetimes, is discussed.     

DYNAMICS OF CARRIER CAPTURE IN AlGaAs/GaAs MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS

Dynamics of carrier relaxation and capture in AlGaAs/GaAs multiple quantum wells (MQW) at 80 K is studied using picosecond luminescence and femtosecond absorption saturation measurements. Carriers generated in the wells and in the barriers scatter initially out of the excited states to a quasi-equilibrium state in 35 and 400 femtoseconds, respectively, before they are captured into the bound states of the quantum wells. Carrier capture occurs during carrier cooling and recombination. A carrier capture time of 25 ps has been deduced from time-resolved luminescence.     

Injection, intersubband relaxation and recombination in GaAs multiple quantum wells

Results of continuous excitation, time-delayed and time-resolved cathodoluminescence experiments on undoped and Be-doped GaAs multiple quantum wells of thickness 5–11 nm are reported for temperatures 5–300 K and excitation intensities 1–10³ W/cm². Comparison is made with similar investigations of bulk epitaxial GaAs layers. Increasing structural localisation of the carriers is identified to lead to a qualitative change of the type of recombination. Increasingly faster radiative excitonic recombination leads to a bypass of impurity and trap capture processes in undoped as well as in doped material, at low temperatures as well as at room temperature. Despite the exponential character of excitonic decay, the luminescence transients are found to be very complex due to an interplay of intersubband scattering and recombination processes and time-dependent carrier temperature. Transients are analysed in detail, excitonic lifetimes and intersubband scattering times are derived. It is argued that both the lifetime reduction in quantum wells and the novel process of recombination heating lead to a strongly increased quasiequilibrium temperature of excited carriers in the wells as compared to bulk material. Injection of carriers from 18 nm GaAlAs barriers to GaAs wells is found to occur in less than 10^-12 s without loss.     

Measurement of the decay of light-induced gratings for characterization of QW heterostructures of type I and II

Using a non-resonant transient grating technique the mobility and recombination lifetime of free carriers in type I and type II QW heterostructures is measured. For the lattice-matched type II Ca_xSr_1−xF₂/GaAs structures the diffusion coefficient as well as the diffraction efficiency is found to be affected by carrier separation into different layers. For GaAs/GaAlAs superlattices a strong influence of the barrier parameters on the inplane diffusion of heavy holes is observed.     

宽范围偏置电流下的GaAlAs红外发光二极管1/f噪声特性

在宽范围偏置条件下,测量了GaAlAs红外发光二极管(IRLED)的低频噪声,发现1/f噪声幅值与偏置电流的γ次方成正比,在小电流区,γ≈1,在大电流区γ≈2.基于载流子数涨落和迁移率涨落机制建立了一个GaAlAs IRLED 1/f噪声模型,该模型的分析表明,低电流区GaAlAs IRLED的1/f噪声源于体陷阱对载流子俘获和发射导致的扩散电流涨落,高电流区的1/f噪声源于结空间电荷区附近氧化层陷阱对该处表面势的调制而引起载流子表面复合速率的涨落.该研究结果为1/f噪声表征GaAlAs IRLED的可靠性提供了实验基础与理论依据.     

Carrier transport effects in quantum well lasers: an overview

Early theoretical predictions and later experimental work have shown that lasers with quantum well active areas have enhanced differential gain over bulk lasers. The resonance frequency in a semiconductor laser is proportional to the square root of the differential gain. The resonance frequency is directly related to the modulation bandwidth, and the enhancement in the intrinsic differential gain led to theoretical predictions of increased modulation bandwidth in quantum well lasers. This enhancement in the modulation bandwidth proved to be elusive initially, and later it was realized that other factors, namely carrier transport effects, played a more dominant role in the high-speed properties of quantum well lasers. Carrier transport effects, in addition to bandfilling, affect a wide range of static and dynamic properties of the quantum well lasers. This paper will present an overview of our present understanding of the carrier transport processes and their effects in quantum well lasers.     

Influence of Auger recombination on the lifetime of nonequilibrium carriers in InGaAsSb/AlGaAsSb quantum well structures

Carrier recombination processes, including the Auger recombination, are studied in InGaAsSb/AlGaAsSb quantum well nanostructures. Based on the dynamics of photoluminescence, we estimate the emission time of an optical phonon, determined the recombination rate as a function of optical-excitation intensity, and estimated the coefficient characterizing the rate of the resonance Auger recombination.     

Bevel fabrication for depth resolved studies of multiple quantum well structures

Beveled cross-sections of semiconductors with inclination angles down to 0.25 min of arc have been produced with a special ion beam etching process. We applied this technique to the depth resolved characterization of GaAs/GaAlAs multiple quantum well structures by photoluminescence spectroscopy. The depth dependent incorporation of impurities during the growth of the first quantum well layers is clearly revealed.     

InGaAs/GaAs应变量子阱激光器线宽展宽因子的理论研究

详细地介绍了计算线宽展宽因子(α因子)的理论基础及推导过程, 建立了α因子的简便模型. 该模型分别考虑了带间跃迁、带隙收缩和自由载流子效应对α因子的影响, 利用不同载流子浓度下的增益曲线得到光子能量随载流子浓度的变化速率以及微分增益, 进而对α因子进行近似计算. 模拟计算了InGaAs/GaAs量子阱激光器的增益曲线及α 因子的大小, 计算结果与文献报道的实验值相符. 进一步讨论了InGaAs/GaAs量子阱阱宽及In组分对α 因子的影响. 结果表明, α 因子随In组分和阱宽的增加而增加.     

High efficient and color stable WOLED using double white emissive layer

For the high luminance and quantum efficiency, we propose a novel structure of white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED) using two white emissive layers (EML). The host material of MADN with the blue dopant of BCzVBi and the red dopant of DCJTB was used for one EML and DPVBi as host material with those dopants for the other EML. By considering the order of the EMLs and their energy band gaps in the device structure, the charge carrier trapping can be generated. They play a role in the barrier function at the EML enhancing the recombination where the holes and electrons were trapped in the DPVBi and MADN. The quantum efficiency can be improved by the charge carrier trapping in the WOLED with the double white EMLs as obtaining 4.23% at 10 mA/cm², and it is vastly superior to that of the WOLED with a single EML. White color balance is also excellent with color coordinates of (0.36, 0.34) in the CIE 1931 (x, y) chromaticity diagram.     

Spin-polarization dependent carrier recombination dynamics and spin relaxation mechanism in asymmetrically doped (110) n-GaAs quantum wells

Carrier recombination and electron spin relaxation dynamics in asymmetric n-doped (110) GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells are investigated with time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy. The experiment results reveal that the measured carrier recombination time depends strongly on the polarization of pump pulse. With the same pump photon flux densities, the recombination time of spin-polarized carriers is always longer than that of the spin-balanced carriers except at low pump photon flux densities, this anomaly originates from the polarization-sensitive nonlinear absorption effect. Differing from the traditional views, in the low carrier density regime, the D'yakonov–Perel' (DP) mechanism can be more important than the Bir–Aronov–Pikus (BAP) mechanism, since the DP mechanism takes effect, the spin relaxation time in (110) GaAs QWs is shortened obviously via asymmetric doping.     

Recombination zone shift in phosphorescent white organic light-emitting devices with single host structure of multi-emission layers

We have investigated the recombination zone in the phosphorescent white organic light-emitting devices with single host structure of multi-emission layers. Blue, green, and orange-red phosphorescent emitters were doped into the separate layers of single host material for fabricating the white devices with multi-emission layers. The electroluminescence spectrum was substantially modified by the shift of the recombination zone that was dependent upon the thickness of the electron transport layer. We investigated the recombination zone shift in terms of electric field distribution and carrier injection. A maximum external quantum efficiency of 15.9% and a maximum power efficiency of 28.9 lm/W were achieved by optimizing the recombination zone.     

指数掺杂反射式GaAlAs和GaAs光电阴极比较研究

采用指数掺杂技术, 通过金属有机化学气相沉积法外延生长了反射式GaAlAs和GaAs光电阴极, GaAlAs发射层的Al组分设计为0.63. 在超高真空系统中分别对两种阴极进行激活实验, 得到激活后的光谱响应曲线. 利用指数掺杂反射式光电阴极量子效率公式对实验曲线进行拟合并分析了电子漂移扩散长度、后界面复合速率、表面电子逸出几率等性能参数对光电发射性能的影响. 结果表明, 与GaAs光电阴极相比, GaAlAs光电阴极的Al组分虽然在一定程度上不利于光电发射, 但是解决了GaAs光电阴极由于响应波段宽而不能很好地用于窄波段可见光探测领域的问题, 制备出只对蓝绿光响应的反射式GaAlAs光电阴极.     

载流子穿越具有双Mot势垒的半导体晶界的输运行为

讨论了穿越具有双Mot势垒的n型半导体晶界的载流子输运行为，重点分析了受主缺陷扩散层对偏压下晶界势垒、直流电流、非线性特性和电容等的作用．晶界势垒在偏压下的变化决定了载流子穿越晶界的输运行为分为预击穿、击穿和回复三个区域．受主缺陷扩散层的存在改变了势垒及其偏压关系，使电流的变化和非线性特性大幅度加强，很大程度上决定了预击穿区的漏电流；同时也使势垒加宽而减小高频电容，但使直流偏压下因晶界电荷的共振响应而产生的电容峰值增大 关键词：     

Modeling and analysis of the effects of inhomogeneous carrier distributions in InGaN multiple quantum wells

It is well known that carrier distribution in InGaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) can be significantly inhomogeneous. However, the conventional ABC recombination model assumes that carriers are uniformly distributed throughout the MQW. In this paper, a modified ABC model that considers the unequal carrier density in the QWs was developed. From the analysis of the developed ABC model, the effective recombination coefficients and modified internal quantum efficiency (IQE) were obtained for an arbitrary carrier distribution in MQWs. The efficiency droop was found to be aggravated as the carrier distribution was increasingly inhomogeneous. However, it was also found that the effect of inhomogeneous carrier distribution alone was not sufficient to explain the IQE droop with the theoretical Auger recombination coefficient based on indirect Auger processes. The developed ABC model is expected to provide insight into the influence of inhomogeneous carrier distributions in MQWs on the efficiency droop in GaN-based light-emitting diodes.     

Indirect excitons and double electron-hole layers in a wide single GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well in a strong electric field

The recombination spectra of indirect excitons and double electron-hole layers in a wide single quantum well in an electric field are studied. It is found that electrons and holes in the wide well become spatially separated in a sufficiently strong electric field. This leads to a substantial reorganization of the radiative recombination spectrum and to a significant increase in the carrier lifetime. It is shown that the total charge of the electron-hole system can be changed by varying the photoexcitation frequency and the applied electric field, thus passing from the neutral case of indirect excitons to the case of charged double electron-hole layers. The concentration of excess carriers in the well is measured as a function of the electric field strength. The behavior of the excited states of indirect heavy-hole and light-hole excitions is studied for a neutral excitonic system in a strong electric field. It is shown that the electric-field dependences allow the excited states of indirect excitons with a light hole to be distinguished from the excited states with a heavy hole.     

Impact of doping on carrier recombination and stimulated emission in highly excited GaN:Mg

Light-induced transient grating and photoluminescence measurements were employed for carrier recombination studies in variously Mg doped GaN layers. Carrier lifetime and ambipolar diffusion coefficient were found to decrease with doping from 210 to 20 ps and from 2.0 to 0.9 cm²/s,respectively, which proved the degradation of electrical quality of the layers. A threshold of stimulated emission was found to depend non-monotonously on doping and had the lowest value of 0.19 mJ/cm² in the most doped layer. This dependence was explained in terms of degeneracy of the hole system.     

Structural Design and Experiment of Narrow-Band Response GaAlAs Photocathodes

To obtain the peak response at 532 nm,narrow-band response GaAlAs photocathodes with two GaAlAs active layers of different aluminum compositions are designed in consideration of the maximum absorptivity and quantum efficiency.The transmission-mode and the corresponding reflective-mode photocathodes are grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition.The results indicate that the peak response and the cut-off wavelength occur at 532 nm for the two kinds of photocathodes respectively.The response of the reflection-mode photocathode is an order of magnitude higher than that of the transmission-mode photocathode,whereas the better growth quality and the thicker second GaAlAs active layer can improve the transmission-mode response.