Long-wavelength stimulated emission and carrier lifetimes in HgCdTe-based waveguide structures with quantum wells

The interband photoconductivity and photoluminescence in narrow-gap HgCdTe-based waveguide structures with quantum wells (QWs) (designed for long-wavelength stimulated emission under optical pumping) are investigated. The photoconductivity relaxation times in n -type structures reach several microse...

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Veröffentlicht in:Semiconductors (Woodbury, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2016-12, Vol.50 (12), p.1651-1656
Hauptverfasser: Rumyantsev, V. V., Fadeev, M. A., Morozov, S. V., Dubinov, A. A., Kudryavtsev, K. E., Kadykov, A. M., Tuzov, I. V., Dvoretskii, S. A., Mikhailov, N. N., Gavrilenko, V. I., Teppe, F.
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Zusammenfassung:The interband photoconductivity and photoluminescence in narrow-gap HgCdTe-based waveguide structures with quantum wells (QWs) (designed for long-wavelength stimulated emission under optical pumping) are investigated. The photoconductivity relaxation times in n -type structures reach several microseconds, due to which stimulated emission at a wavelength of 10.2 μm occurs at a low threshold pump intensity (~100 W/cm 2 ) at 20 K. In the p -type structures obtained by annealing (to increase the mercury vacancy concentration), even spontaneous emission from the QWs is not detected because of a dramatic decrease in the carrier lifetime with respect to Shockley–Read–Hall nonradiative recombination.
ISSN:1063-7826
1090-6479
DOI:10.1134/S1063782616120174