Optical anisotropies of asymmetric double GaAs (001) quantum wells

In the present work, we were able to identify and characterize a source of in-plane optical anisotropies (IOAs) occurring in asymmetric double quantum wells (DQWs), namely a reduction of the symmetry from D2d to C2v as imposed by asymmetry along the growth direction. We report on reflectance anisotr...

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Hauptverfasser: Ruiz-Cigarrillo, O., Lastras-Martínez, L. F., Cerda-Méndez, E. A., Flores-Rangel, G., Bravo-Velazquez, C. A., Balderas-Navarro, R. E., Lastras-Martínez, A., Ulloa-Castillo, N. A., Biermann, K., Santos, P. V.
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description In the present work, we were able to identify and characterize a source of in-plane optical anisotropies (IOAs) occurring in asymmetric double quantum wells (DQWs), namely a reduction of the symmetry from D2d to C2v as imposed by asymmetry along the growth direction. We report on reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS) of double GaAs quantum well structures coupled by a thin (< 2 nm) tunneling barrier. Two groups of DQW systems were studied: one where both QWs have the same thickness (symmetric DQW) and another where they have different thicknesses (asymmetric DQW). RAS measures the IOAs arising from the intermixing of the heavy and light holes in the valence band when the symmetry of the DQW system is lowered from D2d to C2v. If the DQW is symmetric, residual IOAs stem from the asymmetry of the QW interfaces, e.g., that associated with Ga segregation into the AlGaAs layer during the epitaxial growth process. In the case of an asymmetric DQW with QWs with different thicknesses, the AlGaAs layers (that are sources of anisotropies) are not distributed symmetrically at both sides of the tunneling barrier. Thus the system loses its inversion symmetry, yielding an increase in the RAS strength. The RAS line shapes were compared with reflectance spectra in order to assess the heavy- and light-hole mixing induced by the symmetry breakdown. The energies of the optical transitions were calculated by numerically solving the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation using a finite-difference method. Our results are useful for interpretation of the transitions occurring in both symmetric and asymmetric DQWs
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Schrodinger equation
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Thickness
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