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    • Keywords

       

      Photoluminescence; Fermi edge singularity; modulation doping.

    • Abstract

       

      The photoluminescence study of Fermi-edge singularity (FES) in modulation-doped pseudomorphic Al𝑥Ga1–𝑥As/In𝑦Ga1–𝑦As/GaAs quantum well (QW) heterostructures is presented. In the above QW structures the optical transitions between 𝑛 = 1 and 𝑛 = 2 electronic subband to the 𝑛 = 1 heavy hole subband (𝐸11 and 𝐸21 transitions, respectively) are observed with FES appearing as a lower energy shoulder to the 𝐸21 transition. The observed FES is attributed to the Fermi wave vector in the first electronic subband under the conditions of population of the second electronic subband. The FES appears at about 10 meV below 𝐸21 transition around 4.2 K. Initially it gets stronger with increasing temperature and becomes a distinct peak at about 20 K. Further increase in temperature quenches FES and reaches the base line at around 40 K.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      K Gopalakrishna Naik1 K S R K Rao2 T Srinivasan3 R Muralidharan3

      1. Department of Physics, Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri 574 199, India
      2. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
      3. Solid State Physics Laboratory, Lucknow Road, Delhi 110 054, India

    • Dates

       
      Published
      December 2011
      Manuscript received
      11 September 2008
      Manuscript revised
      10 March 2011

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