ELECTRIC-FIELD-INDUCED EXCITON TRANSPORT IN COUPLED-QUANTUM-WELL STRUCTURES

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HAGN, M
ZRENNER, A
BOHM, G
WEIMANN, G
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[1] Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München
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10.1063/1.114677
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We report a conceptionally new approach to achieve electrostatically induced transport and confinement for spatially indirect excitons. Experimentally, exciton transport is demonstrated in an electric-field-tunable GaAs/AlAs coupled quantum well structure, which is configured as a three-terminal device. In spatially resolved photoluminescence experiments, it is shown that indirect excitons experience a drift field, which is given by an electrostatically induced band-gap gradient in the plane of the coupled quantum well structure.© 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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