(1) Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuda, Midori-ku, 226 Yokohama, Japan;(2) Present address: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., 1-5-1 Taito, Taito-ku, 110 Tokyo, Japan
Abstract:
Biaxial tensile strain is introduced into (AlP)n(GaP)n superlattices (SLs) by growing the SLs on slightly lattice-mismatched InGaP intermediate layers on GaP(00l) substrates. A
significant enhancement of photoluminescence intensity is observed for the strained (AlP)n (GaP)n short-period SLs, especially for those with n≤ 3.