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Further insight into the temperature quenching of photoluminescence from InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots

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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 103, Issue 8, Pages -

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AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2913179

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The possibility of controlling the photoluminescence (PL) intensity and its temperature dependence by means of in-growth and postgrowth technological procedures has been demonstrated for InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) embedded in an InGaAs quantum well (QW). The improvement of the QD emission at room temperature (RT), achieved due to a treatment with tetrachloromethane used during the growth, is explained by the reduction of the point defect concentration in the capping layer. It is shown that the PL quenching at RT appears again if the samples are irradiated with protons, above a certain dose. These findings are accounted for by the variations in the quasi-Fermi level position of the minority carriers, which are related to the concentration of trapping centers in the GaAs matrix and have been calculated using a photocarrier statistical model including both radiative and nonradiative recombination channels. By taking into consideration the temperature dependent distribution of the majority and minority carriers between the QDs, embedding QW and GaAs barriers, our calculated results for the PL intensity reproduce very well the experimentally observed trends. (C) 2008 American Institute of Physics.

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