EXCITONS, PHONONS, AND INTERFACES IN GAAS/ALAS QUANTUM-WELL STRUCTURES

被引:138
作者
GAMMON, D
SHANABROOK, BV
KATZER, DS
机构
[1] Naval Research Laboratory, Washington
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.1547
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report photoluminescence and resonant-Raman-scattering studies of single GaAs/AlAs quantum-well structures. Splittings in the exciton peaks show that there is a large-scale island structure at the interfaces. Shifts in the absolute exciton energies of quantum wells grown at different substrate temperatures and also the form of the optical-phonon energies as a function of both mode index and quantum-well width indicate that there also exists a small-scale structure on the interfaces.
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页码:1547 / 1550
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