1. Investigation on the emission wavelength of GaInNAs/GaAs strained compressive quantum wells on GaAs substrates
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M. Bensebti, S. Nacer, Abdelkader Aissat, Jean-Pierre Vilcot, Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520 (IEMN), Centrale Lille-Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du numérique (ISEN)-Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF), LASICOM Laboratory, and Université Saâd Dahlab Blida 1 (UB1)
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Materials science ,Band gap ,chemistry.chemical_element ,02 engineering and technology ,Strained quantum wells ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics] ,0103 physical sciences ,Optoelectronics ,Gallium ,010306 general physics ,Electronic band structure ,Conduction band ,Quantum well ,business.industry ,General Engineering ,Lasers diode ,Semiconductor ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Nitrogen ,Wavelength ,GaInNAs ,GaInNAsSb/GaAs ,chemistry ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
In this paper, we study the effect of the incorporation of nitrogen in strained GaInAs quantum well structures. We evaluate the influence of nitrogen on the conduction band energy by using the band anticrossing model. The incorporation of nitrogen appears to decrease the bandgap energy and increase the emission wavelength. The reduction of energy is due to the interaction of the energy of the conduction band with the level of nitrogen and more the concentration of nitrogen increases, more the energy of the band gap decreases. On the other hand, the emission wavelength increases, the advantage of the incorporation of nitrogen in such structures is to vary the wavelength between 0.980 and [email protected] while exploiting of course the composition of gallium, composition of nitrogen and the thickness of the quantum well. Less temperature insensitive devices are so intended to be fabricated.
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- 2008