Determining the structure of energy in heterostructures with diffuse interfaces


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Abstract

A standard way of determining the type of energy structure in heterostructures, based on analyzing the spectral shift of the band of steady-state photoluminescence (PL) as a function of the excitation power density, is developed with allowance for the effect of the fluctuation tails of the density of energy states. The technique is validated for InAs/AlAs, GaAs/AlAs, and AlSbyAs1–y/AlAs heterostructures with quantum wells.

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D. S. Abramkin

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics; Novosibirsk State University

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Email: demid@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090; Novosibirsk, 630090

A. K. Bakarov

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics

Email: demid@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090

D. A. Kolotovkina

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics; Novosibirsk State University

Email: demid@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090; Novosibirsk, 630090

A. K. Gutakovskii

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics; Novosibirsk State University

Email: demid@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090; Novosibirsk, 630090

T. S. Shamirzaev

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics; Novosibirsk State University; Ural Federal University

Email: demid@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090; Novosibirsk, 630090; Yekaterinburg, 620002

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