Direct demonstration of a misfit strain‐generated electric field in a [111] growth axis zinc‐blende heterostructure
作者:
E. A. Caridi,
T. Y. Chang,
K. W. Goossen,
L. F. Eastman,
期刊:
Applied Physics Letters
(AIP Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 56,
issue 7
页码: 659-661
ISSN:0003-6951
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1063/1.102729
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We report the first direct demonstration of a strain‐generated built‐in electric field in a (111) oriented strained‐layer heterostructure. We present a model which describes the accommodation of the misfit strain in a lattice‐mismatched quantum well, and the resulting generation of a longitudinal electric field via the piezoelectric effect. On a (111)BGaAs substrate, we grew the quantum well in the intrinsic region of ap‐i‐ndiode such that the strain‐generated electric field in the quantum well opposes the weaker built‐in electric field of the diode. Under reverse bias operation, photoconductivity measurements show a quadratic blue shift of the quantum well electroabsorption peaks, in contrast to the red shifts normally observed in the quantum‐confined Stark effect. The measured blue shifts demonstrate an electric field strength of 1.7×105V/cm, which agrees with theory to within the accuracy of the measured sample characteristics.
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