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- Title
Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence of Flat and Undulated SiGe/Si Multiple Quantum Wells.
- Authors
Cheng, B. W.; Zhang, J. G.; Zuo, Y. H.; Mao, R. W.; Huang, C. J.; Luo, L. P.; Yao, F.; Wang, Q. M.
- Abstract
Photoluminescence (PL) of strained SiGe/Si multiple quantum wells (MQW) with flat and undulated SiGe well layers was studied at different temperature. With elevated temperature from 10K, the no-phonon (NP) peak of the SiGe layers in the flat sample has firstly a blue shift due to the dominant transition converting from bound excitons (BE) to free excitons (FE), and then has a red shift when the temperature is higher than 30K because of the narrowing of the band gap. In the undulated sample, however, monotonous blue shift was observed as the temperature was elevated from 10 K to 287 K. The thermally activated electrons, confined in Si due to type-II band alignment, leak into the SiGe crest regions, and the leakage is enhanced with the elevated temperature. It results in a blue shift of the SiGe luminescence spectra.
- Subjects
QUANTUM wells; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; TEMPERATURE
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics B: Condensed Matter Physics; Statistical Physics; Applied Physics, 2002, Vol 16, Issue 28/29, p4211
- ISSN
0217-9792
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0217979202015108