Photoluminescence of HgTe-CdTe superlattices: Comparison of theory and experiment
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 64 (1) , 283-286
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.341423
Abstract
Infrared photoluminescence measurements have been made of a number of HgTe-CdTe superlattice samples as a function of temperature from liquid He to room temperature. The experimental results are compared with calculations of the band gap of these materials and the effects of layer thicknesses, valence-band offset, effective mass, and Hg in the CdTe layers are investigated. The data are in reasonable agreement with the calculations for zero (or small) valence-band offset and no Hg in the CdTe layers.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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