Room-temperature exciton absorption engineering in II-VI quantum wells
- 28 December 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 61 (26) , 3154-3156
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.107992
Abstract
We observe large room‐temperature exciton absorption in the wavelength region around 0.8 μm in CdTe‐based quantum wells. This comes as a result of a room‐temperature exciton engineering concept particularly suitable for II‐VI quantum wells where, by appropriate quantum‐well confinement, the exciton binding energy approaches and exceeds the LO phonon energy. This condition results in a drastic reduction of the exciton‐LO phonon coupling. As a consequence, the temperature‐induced exciton broadening, due to scattering events with LO phonons, is reduced and large excitonic absorption is observed at room temperature.Keywords
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