DYNAMICS OF CARRIER CAPTURE IN AlGaAs/GaAs MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS
LIN WEI-ZHU (林位株)a, PENG WEN-JI (彭文基)a, QIU ZHI-REN (丘志仁)a, ZHOU XUE-CONG (周学聪)a, MO DANG (莫党)b
aInstitute of Laser and Spectroscopy, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, China; bDepartment of Physics, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Abstract Dynamics of carrier relaxation and capture in AlGaAs/GaAs multiple quantum wells (MQW) at 80 K is studied using picosecond luminescence and femtosecond absorption saturation measurements. Carriers generated in the wells and in the barriers scatter initially out of the excited states to a quasi-equilibrium state in 35 and 400 femtoseconds, respectively, before they are captured into the bound states of the quantum wells. Carrier capture occurs during carrier cooling and recombination. A carrier capture time of 25 ps has been deduced from time-resolved luminescence.
Received: 16 August 1991
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