Influence of Built-in Electric Field on Forbidden Transitions in In_xGa_{1-x}As/GaAs Double Quantum Well by Three-Beam Photoreflectance

• Authors: G. Sęk , K. Ryczko , J. Misiewicz , M. Bayer , T. Wang , A. Forchel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Photoreflectance spectroscopy has been used to study optical transitions in In_{0.045}Ga_{0.955}As/GaAs double quantum well at 80 K. The derivative nature of this contactless electromodulation technique allows for the observation of excited state transitions in the low-dimensional structure including the symmetry-forbidden ones. Excitonic symmetry-forbidden transitions can be observed due to the effect of mixing of heavy and light hole excitons and/or due to some asymmetry in the structure. We have shown that the built-in electric field in the region of double quantum well is weak enough (less than 0.5 kV/cm) not to cause any significant energetic shift of features due to quantum confined Stark effect, on one hand. On the other hand, it is sufficient to change strongly the oscillator strength of forbidden transitions. To change the internal electric field, we have used photoreflectance in the three-beam mode with a third beam continuously illuminating the sample and causing changes of the built-in electric fields due to the photovoltage effect. This method works as a contactless forward bias and allows for a change of the field down to the flat band conditions. We have shown that changes of built-in electric field by amount of a few tenths of kV/cm can modify the intensity of forbidden transitions significantly. We show that, although the mixing of excitons is still important, a very weak built-in electric field can be dominant in the observation of forbidden excitonic transitions in double quantum well.

Keywords

EN

73.20.-r; 78.66.-w

Discipline

• 73.20.-r: Electron states at surfaces and interfaces
• 78.66.-w: Optical properties of specific thin films(for optical properties of low-dimensional, mesoscopic, and nanoscale materials, see 78.67.-n; for optical properties of surfaces, see 78.68.+m)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2001
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 417-424

Dates

published

2001-09

received

2001-06-01

Contributors

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G. Sęk

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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K. Ryczko

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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J. Misiewicz

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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M. Bayer

• Institute of Physics, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany

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T. Wang

• Institute of Physics, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany

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A. Forchel

• Institute of Physics, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.100.417