InAs/GaSb量子阱的能带结构及光吸收

采用八能带K-P理论以及有限差分方法,研究了沿[001]方向生长的InAs/GaSb二类断带量子阱体系的能带结构、波函数分布和对[110]方向线性偏振光的吸收特性.研究发现,通过改变InAs或GaSb层的厚度,可有效调节该量子阱体系的能带结构及波函数分布.计算结果表明,当InAs/GaSb量子阱的导带底与价带顶处于共振状态时,导带基态与轻空穴基态杂化效应很小,且导带基态与第一激发态的波函数存在较大的重叠,导带基态与第一激发态之间在布里渊区中心处的跃迁概率明显大于导带底与价带顶处于非共振状态时的跃迁概率.研究结果对基于InAs/GaSb二类断带量子阱体系的中远红外波段的新型级联激光器、探测器等光电器件的设计具有重要意义.     

转移矩阵理论及其在Ⅲ/Ⅴ族半导体量子阱体系中的应用

应用转移矩阵方法求解三种不同量子阱体系中基于单带有效质量模型和包络函数近似下的一维定态薛定谔方程.首先,通过比较Ⅰ型单量子阱GaAlAs/GaAs/GaAlAs体系的解析解和数值解,该方法的精确性得到了验证.其次,与Ⅱ型断代量子阱AlSb/InAs/GaSb/AlSb系统的光致发光谱实验结果比较证实了该方法的适用性.最后,利用该方法推广计算了基于GaAs/GaAlAs材料的Ⅰ型耦合多量子阱体系的子带能级和波函数,说明了方法的通用性和实用性. 关键词： 量子阱 转移矩阵方法 光致发光     

InAs/GaSb量子阱中太赫兹光电导特性

太赫兹技术由于具有重大的科学价值及应用前景而引起了广泛关注,其核心问题是性能优异的室温太赫兹辐射源和探测器研究.本文用半经典的玻尔兹曼方程方法研究了In As/Ga Sb量子阱系统中载流子对电磁场的响应,运用平衡方程方法求解玻尔兹曼方程得到了量子阱系统中的光电导,系统地研究了量子阱结构对光电导的影响,揭示了在该量子阱系统中光电导产生的物理机制.研究发现,量子阱结构主要通过调节载流子的能级、浓度和波函数的耦合影响光电导,对称性较好的量子阱结构(8 nm-8 nm)的光电导信号更强,其峰值落在太赫兹区(0.2 THz),并且在低温下器件的性能较好,温度升高则吸收峰略有降低,且光电导峰值发生红移.研究结果表明该量子阱系统可以用作室温太赫兹光电器件.     

采用AlSb缓冲层生长2.3μm InGaAsSb/AlGaAsSb多量子阱结构

针对常见的GaSb衬底的InGaAsSb/AlGaAsSb多量子阱结构进行了设计和外延生长。样品通过X-射线测试,有多级衍射卫星峰出现,表明量子阱结构的均匀性和界面质量较好,引入AlSb缓冲层可以降低衬底与外延层之间的界面自由能,使AlSb起到了一个滤板的作用,抑制了位错的扩散。光荧光谱测试表明,室温下量子阱结构中心发光波长在2.3μm附近。     

纤锌矿结构ZnO/Mg_xZn_(1-x)O量子阱中带间光吸收的尺寸效应和三元混晶效应

对于纤锌矿结构ZnO/MgxZn1-xO有限深单量子阱结构,考虑内建电场、导带弯曲及材料掺杂对实际异质结势的影响,利用有限差分法和自洽法数值求解Schr?dinger方程和Poisson方程,获得电子(空穴)的本征能级和本征波函数.进而,采用费米黄金法则讨论带间光吸收的尺寸效应和三元混晶效应.结果表明:三元混晶材料MgxZn1-xO中Mg组分的增加会增强垒层和阱层的内建电场强度,使得电子(空穴)平均位置靠近左(右)垒,导致带间跃迁吸收峰呈指数减小且发生蓝移;ZnO/MgxZn1-xO量子阱带间跃迁吸收峰随阱宽增大而减小,吸收峰发生红移.所得结果可为改善异质结构材料和器件的光电性能提供理论指导,以期获得实际应用所需的光学吸收频谱和波长.     

GaAs/AlGaAs超晶格的光致发光

在室温下测量了GaAs/A l0.3Ga0.7As超晶格的光致发光,发现在波长λ=761 nm处存在一较强的发光光峰,此发光峰目前尚未见报道。经理论分析表明,此峰是量子阱中的第一激发态电子与受主空穴复合发光。实验还观测到在λ=786 nm处,λ=798 nm处和λ=824 nm处分别存在一发光峰,分析表明λ=786 nm处的发光峰为量子阱阱中费米能级附近的电子与轻空穴复合发光;λ=798 nm处的发光峰为量子阱内的基态电子到轻空穴的复合发光;λ=824 nm处的发光峰为阱中激子复合复合发光。理论计算与实验结果符合的很好。     

晶格匹配InAs/AlSb超晶格材料的分子束外延生长研究

InAs/GaSb超晶格是量子级联激光器(quantum cascade lase,QCL)和带间级联激光器(interband cascade lasers,ICL)结构中重要的组成,特别是作为ICL的上下超晶格波导层是由大量的超薄外延层(纳米量级)交替生长而成,细微的晶格失配便会直接导致材料晶体质量变差,而且每层的厚度和组分变化会强烈影响材料结构性能.论文研究验证了InAs/GaSb超晶格材料生长的最佳温度约在420℃.通过在衬底旋转的情况下生长40周期短周期GaSb/AlSb和InAs/GaSb超晶格,并采用XRD测量拟合获得了GaSb和AlSb层厚分别为5.448 nm和3.921 nm,以及InAs和GaSb层厚分别为8.998 nm和13.77 nm,误差在10%以内,获得了InAs/AlSb超晶格的生长最优条件.在GaSb衬底上生长晶格匹配的40周期的InAs/AlSb超晶格波导层,充分考虑飘逸As注入对InAs/AlSb超晶格平均晶格常数的影响,在固定SOAK时间为3 s的条件下,通过变化As压为1.7×10^-6 mbar来调整个超晶格的平均晶格常...     

InAs/InxGa1－xSb二类超晶格红外探测器的吸收波长与电子-空穴波函数交叠的研究

运用包络函数模型和传输矩阵方法计算了二类超晶格的能级结构.考虑到InAs与In_xGa_1-xSb结合存在应变,在计算中InAs/In_xGa_1-xSb二类超晶格的带阶采用模型固体理论处理.因为吸收系数与电子-空穴波函数交叠成正比,所以研究了InAs/In_xGa_1-xSb二类超晶格红外探测器的吸收波 关键词： 二类超晶格 红外探测器 波函数的交叠 传输矩阵     

外电场下应变量子阱中电子与空穴的本征态

考虑自发与压电极化引起的内建电场,自由电子-空穴气屏蔽效应和外加电场,基于常微分数值计算,自洽求解电子与空穴的薛定谔方程和泊松方程以获得基态能级。以典型的GaN/A lxGa1-xN纤锌矿氮化物应变量子阱为例,通过数值求解,得到电子与空穴的本征基态能和相应本征波函数。计算结果表明:沿量子阱生长方向所施加的外加电场将抵消阱中内建电场的作用,阱结构的弯曲程度略显平缓,使电子(空穴)本征波函数逆(顺)着外电场方向移动,且均向阱中心移动,波峰峰值增加,隧穿几率减小;在固定外电场情况下,电子与空穴基态能级随阱宽的增加而减小,随掺杂组分的增加而增加,表明外加电场对内建电场有所削弱以及量子限制作用对电子(空穴)基态能有显著的影响。     

带间级联激光器电子注入区优化研究(特邀)

带间级联激光器有源区内部的物理机制复杂,尚未得到充分研究.优化了电子注入区结构,通过减小InAs/AlSb啁啾超晶格中InAs量子阱的厚度促进电子向光增益区的注入,在较低的电子注入区掺杂浓度下满足了光增益区电子数和空穴数基本相等的注入平衡条件,降低了有源区中自由载流子吸收和杂质散射造成的光损耗.采用该有源区结构的带间级...     

Above GaSb barrier in type II quantum well structures for mid-infrared emission detected by Fourier-transformed modulated reflectivity

Modulation spectroscopy in its Fourier-transformed mode has been employed to investigate the optical properties of broken gap ‘W’-shaped GaSb/AlSb/InAs/InGaSb/InAs/AlSb/GaSb quantum well structures designed to emit in the mid infrared range of 3–4 μm for applications in laser-based gas sensing. Besides the optical transitions originating from the confined states in the type II quantum wells, a number of spectral features at the energy above the GaSb band gap have been detected. They have been analyzed in a function of InAs and GaSb layer widths and ultimately connected with resonant states in the range of AlSb tunneling barriers.     

Tailoring InAs/Ga1-xInxSb superlattices for long-wavelength IR applications

A systematic study has been carried out on the design of long-wavelength infrared detector materials from InAs/GaSb and InAs/GaInSb supelattices with absorption energies below 250 meV, i.e. λ > 5 μm. The influence from layer thicknesses and alloy composition on cut-off wavelength and optical matrix element has been analysed. A three-band envelope-function model including strain effects was used to calculate conduction-band electron and valence-band light-hole states, while an effective-mass approximation was used to describe heavy-hole states. In order to achieve useful absorption coefficients, the period of such superlattices must be less than typically 20 monolayers. Calculations revealed that the absorption can be increased with almost unaffected cut-off wavelength by reducing the GaInSb thickness. The effects of including a small amount of In in the GaSb in order to reach longer wavelengths were studied. One conclusion is that although it makes longer wavelengths possible, it also makes the cut-off wavelength much more sensitive to monolayer and composition fluctuations.     

(InAs)1/(GaSb)1超晶格原子链的第一原理研究

利用第一原理平面波赝势法, 对(InAs)₁/(GaSb)₁超晶格原子链的原子结构、力学特性、电子能带结构、 声子结构和光学特性进行研究, 并结合密度泛函理论数值原子轨道赝势法和非平衡格林函数法计算量子输运特性. 与二维层结构的(InAs)₁/(GaSb)₁超晶格相比, (InAs)₁/(GaSb)₁超晶格原子链的能带结构有明显不同, 在某些情况下表现为金属能带特性. 对理想条件下(InAs)₁/(GaSb)₁ 超晶格原子链的力学强度计算表明, 该结构可承受的应变高达 ε=0.19. 通过对声子结构的完整布里渊区分析, 研究了(InAs)₁/(GaSb)₁超晶格原子链的结构稳定性. 对两端接触电极为Al纳米线的InAs/GaSb超晶格原子链的电子输运特性计算表明, 电导随链长和应变的改变而发生非单调变化.光吸收谱的计算结果表现出在红外波段具有陡峭吸收边, 截止波长随超晶格原子链的结构而变化.预计InAs/GaSb超晶格原子链可应用于红外光电子纳米器件, 通过改变超晶格原子链的结构来调节光电响应波段.     

Raman and infrared spectroscopical investigation of the optical vibrational modes in GaSb/AlSb superlattices

The vibrational spectrum of ultra-thin layer GaSb/AlSb superlattices was investigated in detail by infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopies. The effect of confinement of the transverse and longitudinal optical phonons in both types of the layers was studied. The dispersions of optical phonons of the GaSb and the AlSb obtained from the analysis of the Raman and IR spectra are in a good accordance with the theoretical data and results of neutron scattering experiments. First- and second-order Raman spectroscopy indicates the presence of intermixture of atoms at the interfaces in the GaSb/AlSb superlattices. Received: 11 May 1998 / Accepted: 21 July 1998     

Spin-related phenomena in InAs/GaSb quantum wells

We have studied theoretically the influence of symmetry breaking mechanisms: structural inversion asymmetry, bulk inversion asymmetry, relativistic and non-relativistic interface Hamiltonian and warping on spin split of levels ΔE and optical absorption of linearly polarized light in asymmetrical quantum wells made from zincblende materials grown on [001] direction. The AlSb/InAs/GaSb/AlSb broken-gap quantum wells with hybridized electron-hole states sandwiched by the AlSb barriers have been considered. We have obtained substantial contributions of these effects into the absolute values of spin split of electron and hole states and spinflip optical transitions for the initial state in-plane wave vectors along low symmetry directions such as [12].     

第一原理研究界面弛豫对InAs/GaSb超晶格界面结构、能带结构和光学性质的影响

通过广义梯度近似的第一原理全电子相对论计算, 研究了不同界面类型InAs/GaSb超晶格的界面结构、电子和光吸收特性. 由于四原子界面的复杂性和低对称性, 通过对InAs/GaSb超晶格进行电子总能量和应力最小化来确定弛豫界面的结构参数. 计算了InSb, GaAs型界面和非特殊界面(二者交替)超晶格的能带结构和光吸收谱, 考察了超晶格界面层原子发生弛豫的影响.为了证实能带结构的计算结果, 用局域密度近似和Hartree-Fock泛函的平面波方法进行了计算. 对不同界面类型InAs/GaSb超晶格的能带结构计算结果进行了比较, 发现界面Sb原子的化学键和离子性对InAs/GaSb超晶格的界面结构、 能带结构和光学特性起着至关重要的作用.     

Two-colour mid-infrared absorption in InAs/GaSb type II and broken-gap quantum wells under gated electric field

We present a detailed theoretical study on optical properties of an InAs/GaSb-based type II and broken-gap quantum well (QW) in the presence of gated electric voltage. Two absorption peaks were observed through intraband transitions within the same material layer. The intensity of optical absorption induced by inter-layer transition is relatively weak due to a small overlap of electron and hole wavefunctions at InAs/GaSb interface. The applied electric field can open up new channels for optical transition and thus affect significantly the optical absorption by changing the overlap of the electron and hole wavefunctions as well as the transition channels. The obtained results suggest that InAs/GaSb-based type II and broken-gap QWs can be employed as two-colour photodetectors working at mid-infrared bandwidth at relatively high temperatures. More over, the bandwidth of the optical absorption can be tuned by the gated electric field.     

Wet etching and passivation of GaSb-based very long wavelength infrared detectors

The etching and passivation processes of very long wavelength infrared (VLWIR) detector based on the InAs/GaSb/AlSb type-II superlattice have been studied. By studying the effect of each component in the citric acid solution (citric acid, phosphoric acid, hydrogen peroxide, deionized water), the best solution ratio is obtained. After comparing different passivation materials such as sulfide + SiO₂, Al₂O₃, Si₃N₄ and SU8, it is found that SU8 passivation can reduce the dark current of the device to a greater degree. Combining this wet etching and SU8 passivation, the R₀A of VLWIR detector with a mesa diameter of 500 μm is about 3.6 Ω ·cm² at 77 K.     

1/f Noise modeling of InAs/GaSb superlattice mid-wavelength infrared detectors

The empirical 1/f noise model for p\(^{+}\)-p-n infrared detector made of type-II InAs/GaSb superlattice material is presented. It is shown that 1/f noise magnitude can be accurately estimated if dark current contributions are determined and noise coefficients are known. It is found that the shunt, the bulk generation–recombination, and the trap-assisted tunneling currents contribute to the total 1/f noise. No 1/f noise connected with the diffusion and the band-to-band tunneling currents is observed.