Optical properties of InAsSb nanostructures embedded in InGaAsSb strain reducing layer

Tianfeng Li, Yonghai Chen*, Wen Lei, Xiaolong Zhou, Zhanguo Wang

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    Abstract

    This paper presents a comparative study on the optical properties of both type-I and type-II InAsSb/InGaAsSb nanostructures on InP substrates. A type-I band alignment is observed for InAsSb/InGaAsSb heterostructure when the Sb composition in InGaAsSb layers is 10%, while a type-II band alignment is observed for the InAsSb/InGaAsSb heterostructures when the Sb composition in InGaAsSb layers is higher than 10%. And, besides their long emission wavelength (around 2 μm), the InAsSb/In0.53Ga0.47As 0.7Sb0.3 nanostructures with type-II band alignment have a much larger thermal activation energy (163 meV) compared with that of type-I band alignment (79 meV), which is helpful for suppressing the quenching of emission efficiency at high temperatures.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)869-873
    Number of pages5
    JournalPhysica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
    Volume43
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 2011

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