Abstract
We report strong room-temperature intersubband absorption in 80 Å strain-compensated In0.84Ga0.16As/AlAs/In0.52Al0.48As double-barrier quantum wells grown on InP substrates. From the multiple Γ-Γ intersubband transitions observed, it is inferred that the electron effective masses and nonparabolicity parameters for the first two subbands differ significantly from each other. For the range k∼5×106−6×106cm−1, the difference in subband parameters results in a change in transition energy of about twice the value calculated for the corresponding GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics |
Volume | 69 |
Issue number | 3 |
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Publication status | Published - 28 Jan 2004 |