Low-temperature-grown GaAs quantum wells: Femtosecond nonlinear optical and parallel-field transport studies
- 16 September 1991
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 59 (12) , 1491-1493
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.105297
Abstract
We find that GaAs-AlGaAs quantum wells grown at low temperature (300 °C) by molecular beam epitaxy are nearly semi-insulating and exhibit a broadened excitonic resonance. Studies of the femtosecond time-resolved nonlinear optical saturation response and parallel-field transport properties indicate that a subpicosecond nonradiative decay dominates the carrier recombination of this material. Annealing of low-temperature-grown quantum wells causes the arsenic point defects to form arsenic metallic precipitates within the quantum wells and up-shifts the absorption edge.Keywords
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