EXCITONS IN GAAS QUANTUM WELLS

被引:231
作者
MILLER, RC
KLEINMAN, DA
机构
[1] AT&T Bell Lab, Murray Hill, NJ,, USA, AT&T Bell Lab, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
关键词
LUMINESCENCE - Applications - OPTICAL PROPERTIES;
D O I
10.1016/0022-2313(85)90075-4
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A summary is presented of some of the salient properties of excitons in GaAs quantum wells. Topics discussed on the quasi-2D excitons in GaAs quantum wells include: their inherent tendency for intrinsic free-exciton emission, exciton binding energies, bound and localized excitons including biexcitons and excitons bound to neutral impurities, effects of n- and p-type modulation and antimodulation doping, and the developments leading to a proposed set of quantum well parameters that results in acceptable fits to the observed exciton transitions for GaAs quantum wells with both square and parabolic potential profiles.
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页码:520 / 540
页数:21
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