Room-temperature excitons in strained InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells

Abstract
We report sharp and well resolved exciton peaks in the room-temperature absorption spectra of strained InGaAs/GaAs single-quantum-well (SQW) and multiple-quantum-well (MQW) structures and demonstrate for the first time that the strength of the exciton-LO-phonon coupling, determined from the linewidth analysis, is stronger in InGaAs/GaAs SQW structures than in InGaAs/GaAs MQW structures. The inhomogeneous linewidth and homogeneous broadening in InGaAs/GaAs SQW and MQW structures are discussed in detail.