Abstract Photoluminescence (PL) ia used to study the interface properties of GaAs/AlGaAs quan-tum well (QW) heterostructures prepared by molecular beam epitaxy with growth interrup-tion (GI). The discrete luminescence lines observed for the sample with GI are assigned to the splitting of the heavy-hole exciton associated with heterointerface islands with the lateral size greater than excjton diameter and mean height less than one monolayer, and the spectra have the Gaussian lineshapes. The results strongly support the microroughness model. We also study the temperature dependence of the exciton energies and find that excitons are localized at the interface roughness at low temperature even in the sample with GI, The lateral size of the microroughness of the GI sample is estimated to be less than 5nm from the exciton localization energy.
Received: 15 September 1994
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