THE STOKES SHIFT IN GOOD QUALITY QUANTUM-WELL STRUCTURES

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作者
GURIOLI, M [1 ]
MARTINEZPASTOR, J [1 ]
VINATTIERI, A [1 ]
COLOCCI, M [1 ]
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[1] UNIV FLORENCE,DEPT PHYS,I-50125 FLORENCE,ITALY
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10.1016/0038-1098(94)90426-X
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
摘要
The origin of the red shift of the excitonic luminescence with respect to the absorption peak (Stokes shift) in good quality quantum wells, usually ascribed to exciton trapping, is explained in terms of a thermal population of the inhomogeneous distribution of excitonic states. Within this new picture the Stokes shift turns out to be quadratic on the absorption linewidth and inversely proportional to the excitonic temperature. The predictions are found to be in good agreement with careful measurements in a set of GaAs/AlGaAs single quantum well structures.
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