Band-edge states and valence-band offset of GaP/InP strained-layer superlattices

Abstract
A study of the optical properties of short-period GaP/InP(001) strained-layer superlattices is presented. Photoluminescence, photoreflectance, and resonant Raman spectroscopies have been used to determine both the interband transition energies and the spatial distribution of the electronic wave functions. Comparison of the experimental results to those of an empirical tight-binding calculation provides an overall picture of the superlattices’s electronic structure, and gives an estimate of the valence-band offset of about 0.6 eV.