Blue-shift mechanisms in annealed quantum wells

M Hugues, B Damilano, JM Chauveau, JY Duboz… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
Using a wide range of annealing conditions and a combination of optical and structural
characterizations, we have been able to discriminate the different mechanisms at the origin …

Optical properties of GaNAs and GaInAsN quantum wells

RJ Potter, N Balkan - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of our optical characterization work on dilute nitride quantum well
(QW) samples. A simple model for calculating interband transition energies is constructed …

S-shaped behaviour of the temperature-dependent energy band gap in dilute nitrides

S Mazzucato, RJ Potter, A Erol, N Balkan… - Physica E: Low …, 2003 - Elsevier
We have investigated the temperature dependence of the band gap energy in GaInNAs,
GaNAs and InGaAs quantum wells. In the structures containing nitrogen the well-known S …

Electron spin dynamics in GaAsN and InGaAsN structures

D Lagarde, L Lombez, X Marie, A Balocchi… - … status solidi (a), 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We report on optical orientation experiments in undoped GaAsN epilayers and InGaAsN
quantum wells (QW), showing that a strong electron spin polarisation can persist at room …

Temperature dependence of photoluminescence and photoreflectance spectra of dilute GaAsN alloys

J Plaza, JL Castaño, BJ García, H Carrère… - Applied Physics …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The temperature dependence of photoluminescence (PL) and photoreflectance (PR) spectra
of Ga As 1− x N x unrelaxed layers (0⩽ x< 0.05) grown on GaAs (100) substrates is studied …

Bound-to-bound and bound-to-free transitions in surface photovoltage spectra: Determination of the band offsets for and quantum wells

M Galluppi, L Geelhaar, H Riechert, M Hetterich… - Physical Review B …, 2005 - APS
We present an extensive study leading to a general understanding about the optical
transitions involved in the surface photovoltage (SPV) spectra of type-I quantum well (QW) …

Nitrogen-plasma study for plasma-assisted MBE growth of 1.3 μm laser diodes

H Carrère, A Arnoult, A Ricard, X Marie, T Amand… - Solid-State …, 2003 - Elsevier
We have studied the influence of radio-frequency plasma cell operating conditions on the
plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy growth of bulk GaAsN and GaInAsN quantum …

Band structure calculations for dilute nitride quantum wells under compressive or tensile strain

H Carrère, X Marie, J Barrau, T Amand… - Journal of Physics …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We have calculated the band structure of InGaAsN/GaAs (N)/GaAs compressively strained
quantum wells (QW) emitting at 1.3 µm using the band anticrossing model and an eight …

Comparison of the optical gain of InGaAsN quantum-well lasers with GaAs or GaAsP barriers

H Carrère, X Marie, J Barrau, T Amand - Applied Physics Letters, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
We have compared the calculated band structure and optical gain of compressively strained
InGaAsN quantum-well lasers emitting at 1.3 μ m with GaAs or GaAsP barriers. The GaAsP …

Influence of indium on the electronic states in GaInNAs/GaAs quantum well structures

M Hetterich, A Grau, AY Egorov… - Journal of applied physics, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
We use room-temperature photoreflectance spectroscopy to investigate the influence of
indium on the electronic structure of Ga1xInxNyAs1y/GaAs multiple quantum wells. To fit our …