Optical measurement of the ambipolar diffusion length in a ZnCdSe–ZnSe single quantum well
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 81 (1) , 536-538
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.364094
Abstract
We describe a straightforward technique for the measurement of carrier diffusion in semiconductors. Using an optical microscope we can spatially image luminescence with a resolution of ∼500 nm. We measured the ambipolar diffusion length in a Zn0.75Cd0.25Se–ZnSe single quantum well by fitting the spatially resolved luminescence profile with the solution of the two-dimensional diffusion equation. The ambipolar diffusion length was found to be 498 nm at a carrier density of ∼1×1018 cm−3 and we deduce an ambipolar diffusion constant of 1.7 cm2 s−1.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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