Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2006-12-22
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review B
Scientific paper
A three-terminal spectroscopy that probes both subsurface energy barriers and interband optical transitions in a semiconductor heterostructure is demonstrated. A metal-base transistor with a unipolar p-type semiconductor collector embedding InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) is studied. Using minority/majority carrier injection, ballistic electron emission spectroscopy and its related hot-carrier scattering spectroscopy measures barrier heights of a buried AlxGa1-xAs layer in conduction band and valence band respectively, the band gap of Al0.4Ga0.6As is therefore determined as 2.037 +/- 0.009 eV at 9 K. Under forward collector bias, interband electroluminescence is induced by the injection of minority carriers with sub-bandgap kinetic energies. Three emission peaks from InAs QDs, InAs wetting layer, and GaAs are observed in concert with minority carrier injection.
Bank Seth R.
Gossard Arthur. C.
Narayanamurti Venkatesh
Yi Wei
Zide Joshua M. O.
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