可用于红外探测器的自组织量子线及其带间和子带间光学跃迁

研究了自组织量子线Ga1-xInxAs的结构、应力分布及其光学性质.模拟了微应力导致的横向成序及其导引短周期超晶格形成量子线的过程，并计算出量子线在原子尺度上的微应力分布.这里考虑了价带各向异性、带间混合及局域应力分布对光学性质的作用.研究发现自组织量子线具有应用于正入射红外探测器的良好光学特性.结果显示当量子线的周期长度为15到30nm时，导带子带间跃迁波长处在10到20μm，这正是红外探测器的理想工作范围.同时，带间吸收波长在中红外范围，它提供了红外探测器的另一个窗口. 关键词： 自组织 微应力 红外探测器 量子线     

GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs量子阱能级结构设计与光谱分析

通过理论计算对用于量子阱红外探测器的GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs量子阱能级结构进行模拟设计,将不同生长结构的量子阱材料的光响应谱和光致荧光谱(PL)与计算结果进行比较.说明量子阱生长结构与量子阱能级结构的关系.欲使量子阱红外探测器的响应峰值在8μm附近,则需量子阱结构中阱宽为47nm,垒中Al含量为029.理论计算与测试结果符合得较好. 关键词：     

温度对量子阱红外探测器峰值波长的影响

量子阱红外探测器(QWIP)是一种对红外辐射信息进行高灵敏度感应的光电转换器件,温度是影响其性能的一个参数.文章以超晶格量子阱发射与干涉电子态理论和吸收波长公式为依据,通过计算温度对势阱、势垒宽度和势垒高度的影响,得出量子阱红外探测器峰值波长与温度的变化关系.发现:当温度升高时,探测峰值发生改变,其中有两处峰值发生红移,一处发生蓝移.这对精确分析红外辐射携带信息和制作非制冷量子阱红外探测器提供了理论指导.     

GaAs／AlGaAs多量子阱红外探测器研制成功

红外量子阱探测器是利用量子阱材料导带内子带间光跃迁对红外辐射的强吸收,来测量红外辐射强度的一种新型的、快速灵敏的红外探测器.其工作原理是:首先利用掺杂使量子阱中的基态上填充上具有一定浓度的二维电子,当入射光子能量■等于子带间能隙时。照射到器件接收面上的红外辐射将处于基态上的电子激发到较高激发态上,这些激发热电子在外场作用下,在匹配的外电路中形成与入射光强度成正比的电流或电压信号.该探测器的响应波段可以覆盖8—14μm的波长范围,响应速度快(皮秒量级),灵敏度较高(D*～1010cmHz1/2/W),并且可以通过改变材料的生长…     

超长波GaAs/AlGaAs量子阱红外探测器光电流谱特性研究

研究了响应波长在15μm附近的超长波GaAs/AlGaAs量子阱红外探测器在不同外加偏压下的光电流谱特性.光电流谱上的两个主要由于阱宽随机涨落而呈现为高斯线形的响应峰被分别指认为量子阱基态E0到第一激发态E1和第三激发态E3的跃迁.跃迁峰随着器件上外加偏压的增大而出现线性红移现象，认为这种变化起源于激发态与基态对量子阱结构中势变化敏感性的不同，采用传输矩阵方法并考虑到电子交互作用修正进行的理论计算在定量上解释了实验结果. 关键词： 量子阱红外探测器 超长波 光电流 传输矩阵     

用金属小球进行长波量子阱红外探测器的光耦合

针对实验中9.5μm峰值响应波长的n型长波量子阱红外探测器设计运用二维金属小球(铜)阵列作光耦合结构.金属小球阵列均匀填充在绝缘的胶黏剂中，基于惠更斯原理研究二维金属小球阵列体系的光耦合和光吸收，结果表明对9.5μm响应波长的长波量子阱红外探测器，采用周期为3μm，半径为0.9μm左右的金属小球阵列可以获得最佳的光耦合.优化设计后的量子效率(66%)远高于45°磨角耦合的量子效率(38%)，为实验运用金属小球阵列进行长波量子阱红外探测器的光耦合提供了基本的理论依据和详细的优化设计方案.     

10—14 μm同时响应的双色量子阱红外探测器

实现截止波长为11.8和14.5 μm双色同时响应的量子阱红外探测器,可以同时工作在8—12 μm大气窗口和甚长波波段.在77 K下测量到很强的光电流谱.器件结构采取了较为简洁的设计,通过适当增大量子阱结构中势阱的宽度和选择合适的掺杂浓度,在同一偏压下实现了对两个波长的同时响应.两个光响应峰分别为基态到第五激发态和基态到第一激发态的跃迁吸收. 关键词： 量子阱红外探测器 双色 同时响应     

量子阱红外探测器的光耦合

本文从有效质量近似理论出发，在量子阱导带内子带间光吸收分析的基础上，评述了ｎ型量子阱红外探测器的光耦合。着重研究适宜于量子阱红外探测器的不同种类的光栅，并从理论上优化出高耦合效率的各种光栅参数     

甚长波量子阱红外探测器的暗电流特性研究

基于载流子在量子结构中的输运理论研究了甚长波量子阱红外探测器(峰值响应波长15μm，量子阱个数大于40)的载流子的输运性质.研究结果表明，在甚长波量子阱红外探测器中，电流密度一般很低，暗电流主要来源于能量高于势垒边的热激发电子.通过薛定谔方程和泊松方程以及电流的连续性方程的自洽求解，发现外加偏压下电子浓度在甚长波器件各量子阱的分布发生较大变化，电场在整个器件结构上呈非均匀分布，靠近发射极层的势垒承担的电压远远高于均匀分布的情形.平带模型假定电压在器件体系上均匀分布，导致小偏压下的理论计算值远远低于实验值. 关键词： 甚长波量子阱红外探测器 量子波输运 暗电流     

我国第一支量子阱红外探测器

量子阱红外探测器是一种新型红外探测器.它是利用新型半导体超晶格量子阱材料的子能带光跃迁的红外吸收特性制成的.它具有响应快、灵敏度高、可变波长、可变带宽等特点,并有实现大面积集成和制作大面积二维象素列阵的实际可能性,将成为新一代红外探测器件,在未来五到十年内可能引起红外物理、红外光电子学及其应用领域的变革.两年前,美国贝尔实验室已研制出可与历史悠久的HgCdTe红外探测器性能相比较的GaAs/AlGaAs量子阱探测器. 中国科学院物理研究所从1989年开始,就在器件材料生长、器件物理、器件工艺及器件的性能测试等方面,着手进行…     

Electronic energy levels in semiconductor quantum wells and superlattices

We present the results of the calculations of some electronic properties of semiconductor quantum wells and superlattices. The review includes the superlattice band structure and the quantum well bound energy levels; the virtual bound states of semiconductor quantum wells and their influence on the energy spectrum of separate confinement heterostructures. Finally the perturbation of quantum well bound states and exciton states by a static electric field applied parallel to the growth axis is considered.     

A non-Boltzmann balance equation approach to electronic transport in a type-I superlattice

Force and energy balance equations are derived for steady state hot electron transport in a type-I superlattice composed of periodically arranged finite-width quantum wells. The scatterings by remote and background impurities and by acoustic and polar optical phonons are taken into account, together with Coulomb interactions between intralayer electrons and interlayer electrons. The carrier mobility and electron temperature are calculated as functions of drift velocity ν up to ν=3×10⁷ cm / s, showing significant nonlinearity and dependence on geometrical superlattice parameters (quantum well width and separation, etc.)     

The effect of exchange interaction on the energy spectrum of electrons in doped intentionally disordered superlattices

The electron density distribution is calculated for a doped superlattice with controlled vertical disorder caused by fluctuations of the layer thicknesses (quantum well widths) in the growth direction. At low temperatures, the exchange interaction leads to an increase in the scatter of quantum confinement levels and the formation of a soft gap in the electron density distribution over quantum wells of the superlattice.     

Pseudospin splitting of the energy spectrum of planar polytype graphene-based superlattices

The energy spectrum of planar polytype graphene-based superlattices has been investigated. It is shown that their energy spectrum undergoes pseudospin splitting due to the asymmetry of quantum wells forming the superlattice potential profile.     

Polaron in a superlattice with δ-like potentials

The problem of the polaron spectrum is studied in a superlattice having narrow quantum wells and relatively wide potential barriers. A δ-like superlattice potential is chosen to solve the problem. This model is adequate, if the penetration depth of the electron wave function into the barrier region is much greater than the width of the quantum well. A weak-coupling polaron at low temperature is studied. Only volume phonons are considered. Expressions are obtained for the polaron mass and the shift of the polaron energy under these assumptions. To test the model, numerical calculations were performed for an InAs-GaSb superlattice, whose quantum wells are quite deep (the energy offset of the conduction bands in InAs and GaSb equals 830 meV), narrow (the width of a quantum well corresponds to the width of an InAs monolayer 6 Å), and the barrier width corresponding to the thickness of the GaSb layers equals 150 Å. The assumption that the penetration depth of the wave function is much greater than the barrier width holds well.     

Drastic reduction of shot noise in semiconductor superlattices

We have found experimentally that the shot noise of the tunneling current I through an undoped semiconductor superlattice is reduced with respect to the Poissonian noise value 2eI, and that the noise approaches 1/3 of that value in superlattices whose quantum wells are strongly coupled. On the other hand, when the coupling is weak or when a strong electric field is applied to the superlattice, the noise becomes Poissonian. Although our results are qualitatively consistent with existing theories for one-dimensional multibarrier structures, the theories cannot account for the dependence of the noise on superlattice parameters that we have observed.     

Collective modes of a superlattice - plasmons,LO phonon-plasmons,and magnetoplasmons

The wavevector-frequency dependent dielectric constant is investigated for a superlattice structure. Attention here is focused on the collective modes of the GaAs-GaAlAs superlattice with doped (or modulated doped) quantum wells. For wells widely separated in space, such that Bloch wave function overlap between wells is negligible, a Bloch-like plasmon can propagate along the superlattice direction mediated entirely by Coulomb interaction alone. Interaction of these plasmons with optical phonons and with a magnetic field is investigated.     

Interaction of Wannier–Stark levels in a wide well superlattice

We have investigated the energy spectrum of a superlattice with wide quantum wells under the bias of an electric field perpendicular to the superlattice layers. By using photocurrent spectroscopy, transitions of Wannier–Stark levels for the various electron and hole states are observed, and at low fields, further structures corresponding to miniband edge transitions are found. Various anticrossings could be observed at higher and lower electric fields. The anticrossings at high electric fields are due to energy alignment of different electronic sublevels in adjacent wells. The anticrossing structures at low fields could be interpreted as resonances between intrawell and interwell excitonic Wannier–Stark states with equal sublevel states, where the anticrossing is caused by differences in exciton binding energy. Fitting of transitions and anticrossings was done by using a semi-empirical model and we have extracted relevant fitting parameters like the quantum-confined Stark coefficient, binding energies for the excitonic Wannier–Stark levels and the resonant coupling strength for states involved in the various anticrossing transitions. Finally, insight into the excitonic influences on the coupling of the WS states could be obtained by comparing the fitted parameters for the various transitions.     

Spin-orbit interactions in semiconductor superlattice

The purpose of this paper is to theoretically investigate the spin-orbit interactions of common semiconductor superlattices. Spin splitting and spin-orbit interaction coefficients are calculated based on interactions between the interface-related-Rashba effect and Dresselhaus effect. Semiconductor superlattice shows a series of specific characteristics in spin splitting as follows. The spin splitting of the superlattice structure is greater than that of a single quantum well, contributing to significant spin polarization, spin filtering, and convenient manipulation of spintronic devices. The spin splitting of some superlattice structures does not change with variation of the size of some constituent quantum wells, reducing the requirements for accuracy in the size of quantum wells. The total spin splitting of lower sub-levels of some superlattice can be designed to be zero, realizing a persistent spin helix effect and long spin relaxation time, however, the total spin splitting of higher sub-levels is still appreciable, contributing to desirable spin polarization. These results demonstrate that one superlattice structure can realize two functions, acting as a spin field effect transistor and a spin filter.     

Dependence of persistent gaps at landau level crossings on relative spin

We report measurements of the quantum Hall state energy gap at avoided crossings between Landau levels originating from different conduction band valleys in AlAs quantum wells. These gaps exhibit an approximately linear dependence on the magnetic field over a wide range of fields and filling factors. More remarkably, we observe an unexpected dependence of the gap size on the relative spin orientation of the crossing levels, with parallel-spin crossings exhibiting larger gaps than antiparallel-spin crossings.