Interface profiles and in-plane anisotropy in common anion type-I Cd1-xMgxTe/CdTe/Cd1-xMnxTe heterostructures studied by reflectivity -: art. no. 045312

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Kudelski, A
Golnik, A
Gaj, JA
Kyrychenko, FV
Karczewski, G
Wojtowicz, T
Semenov, YG
Krebs, O
Voisin, P
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[1] Univ Warsaw, Inst Expt Phys, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[2] Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys, PL-02668 Warsaw, Poland
[3] Ukrainian Acad Sci, Inst Semicond Phys, Kiev, Ukraine
[4] Ecole Normale Super, F-75005 Paris, France
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2001年 / 64卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.64.045312
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T [工业技术];
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We report on the experimental study of the in-plane optical anisotropy of CdTe-based quantum wells with asymmetric barriers made of (Cd,Mg)Te or (Cd,Mn)Te ternary compounds. We observe a significant linear polarization of the fundamental excitonic transitions along the (110) directions. The measured polarization rates are analyzed in the framework of an envelope function theory incorporating interface symmetry reduction for intermixed composition profiles. Fitting the experimental data produces inter-face anisotropy parameters that are larger than the ones predicted by a recent microscopic theory. The analysis shows an important influence of the interface profile asymmetry on the observed in-plane anisotropy.
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