Study of the Auger Recombination Energy Threshold in a Series of Waveguide Heterostructures with HgTe/Cd0.7Hg0.3Te QWs Near 14 μm


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Abstract

Stimulated emission from a heterostructure with Hg0.903Cd0.097Te/Cd0.7Hg0.3Te quantum wells, placed in a waveguide layer of wide-gap CdHgTe, is obtained at wavelengths of 14–11 μm and a temperatures of 18–80 K. The threshold Auger recombination energy is calculated for a set of heterostructures with quantum wells of pure HgTe with a band gap of 90 meV (wavelength 14 μm). The possibility of fabricating lasers operating at 14 μm and working temperatures higher than that of liquid nitrogen is demonstrated.

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V. V. Utochkin

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: xenonum@bk.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 GSP-105

V. Ya. Aleshkin

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: xenonum@bk.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 GSP-105

A. A. Dubinov

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: xenonum@bk.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 GSP-105

V. I. Gavrilenko

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: xenonum@bk.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 GSP-105

N. S. Kulikov

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: xenonum@bk.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 GSP-105

M. A. Fadeev

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: xenonum@bk.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 GSP-105

V. V. Rumyantsev

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: xenonum@bk.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 GSP-105

N. N. Mikhailov

Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090

S. A. Dvoretskii

Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: xenonum@bk.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090

S. V. Morozov

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: xenonum@bk.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 GSP-105


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