ANNEALING EFFECT ON THE SHAPE OF CDTE/ZNTE QUANTUM-WELLS

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HAMOUDI, A [1 ]
LIGEON, E [1 ]
SAMINADAYAR, K [1 ]
CIBERT, J [1 ]
DANG, LS [1 ]
TATARENKO, S [1 ]
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[1] UNIV JOSEPH FOURIER,SPECTROMETRIE PHYS LAB,CNRS,URA08,F-38402 ST MARTIN DHERES,FRANCE
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10.1063/1.106831
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We report on the effect of thermal annealing on thin (001) CdTe/ZnTe single quantum wells. We found that the interdiffusion strongly modifies the optical spectra: (i) besides the expected blue shift, a strong reduction of the linewidth is observed in a first stage of annealing; we attribute this effect to a complete elimination of the larger islands present at the interface, (ii) in a second stage, "usual" interdiffusion occurs, with a slow rate in agreement with the diffusion coefficient extrapolated from reported self-diffusion data at higher temperatures.
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