Correlation length of interface roughness and its enhancement in molecular beam epitaxy grown GaAs/AlAs quantum wells studied by mobility measurement
- 15 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 57 (16) , 1651-1653
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.104077
Abstract
We have studied the correlation length (Λ) of interface roughness in GaAs/AlAs quantum wells (QWs) prepared by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). It is found that the mobility of two-dimensional electrons in very thin selectively doped GaAs/AlAs QW structures is substantially enhanced when the bottom AlAs barrier layer is prepared by alternate beam MBE and/or by the use of superlattice buffer layer below the QW. By measuring the electron concentration dependence of mobility and comparing with the theory of interface roughness scattering, we have found that Λ of the bottom (GaAs-on-AlAs) interface of the QW gets as large as 200–300 Å, when prepared by the modified growth technique, which is about three times as large as that (∼70 Å) by conventional MBE.Keywords
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