ROOM-TEMPERATURE EXCITONIC SATURATION IN CDZNTE/ZNTE QUANTUM-WELLS

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LEE, D
ZUCKER, JE
JOHNSON, AM
FELDMAN, RD
AUSTIN, RF
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[1] AT and T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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10.1063/1.103513
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We present the first measurements of room-temperature excitonic absorption saturation in a II-VI semiconductor quantum well. Strong room-temperature excitonic absorption in CdZnTe/ZnTe quantum wells is found to saturate at an incident optical intensity that is considerably higher than that for III-V quantum wells. We show that this phenomenon can be interpreted in terms of the smaller excitonic Bohr radius characteristic of wide-gap II-VI compounds.
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