Type I and Type II Alignment of the Light Hole Band in In0.15Ga0.85As/GaAs and in ln0.15Ga0.85As/Al0.15Ga0.85As Strained Quantum Wells |
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| Authors: | E M Goldys H Y Zuo M R Phillips CM Contessa M R Vaughan T L Tansley |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Semiconductor Science and Technology Laboratories, Macquarie University, 2109 North Ryde, NSW, Australia;(2) Microstructural Analysis Unit, University of Technology, 2007 Sydney, NSW, Australia;(3) CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, P.O. Box 76, 2121 Epping, NSW, Australia |
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| Abstract: | We present results of photoluminescence and cathodoluminescence measurements of strained undoped In0.15Ga0.85As/GaAs and In0.15Ga0.85As/Al0.15Ga0.85As quantum well structures, designed to throw light on the current controversy over light-hole band alignment at low In content.
We compare these data with theoretical calculations of the confined state energies within the eight band effective mass approximation.
Our analysis shows that for In0.15Ga0.85As/GaAs, the observed two transitions are consistent with either type I or type II alignment of the light hole band for band
offset ratios within the accepted range. In the case of In0.15Ga0.85As/Al0.15Ga0.85As, however, our results clearly indicate type II alignment for the light hole band. We derive the band offset ratio Q, defined
here as Q = δEc/δEg where δEc is the conduction band offset and δEg is the bandgap difference between the quantum well and the barrier in the presence of strain, for the In0.15Ga0.85As/Al0.15Ga0.85As system to be Q = 0.83 and discuss it in the context of the common anion rule. |
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| Keywords: | Band alignment InGaAs/GaAs strained quantum wells |
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