Photoluminescence Study of Electron Wave Confinement in Multi-Quantum Barrier (MQB)

Abstract
We have confirmed the enhancement of electron wave confinement of GaAs/AlGaAs multi-quantum barrier (MQB) using photoluminescence (PL) measurement. We observed less saturated PL excitation dependence and less sensitive temperature dependence. This could be due to the quantum enhancement in the potential barrier of the MQB structure, and shows a superior carrier confinement of MQB over a classical bulk barrier.