QUANTUM CONFINED ONE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON-HOLE PLASMA IN SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES

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作者
CINGOLANI, R [1 ]
LAGE, H [1 ]
TAPFER, L [1 ]
KALT, H [1 ]
HEITMANN, D [1 ]
PLOOG, K [1 ]
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[1] MAX PLANCK INST FESTKORPERFORSCH,W-7000 STUTTGART 80,GERMANY
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.891
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report a study of the temporal evolution of the luminescence from an electron-hole plasma confined in GaAs quantum wires under high-power excitation. In the spectra 1 D intersubband transitions with quantum numbers as high as n = 5 are resolved. The spectral positions are in excellent agreement with Kohn-Luttinger calculations based on an active wire width of w = 60 +/- 5 nm, accurately determined by an x-ray-diffraction method employed for 1 D systems. The decay of the luminescence and the hot-carrier cooling rate, which is obtained from line-shape analysis, are found to be slower than the corresponding processes in quantum wells.
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