Abstract

InAlAs lattice matched on InP heterostructures with a thin InAs layer of variable thickness intentionally added at the interface has been grown by molecular-beam epitaxy and characterized by photoluminescence. Radiative transitions, the position of which is correlated with the InAs thickness, are systematically observed, even in samples without any added InAs layer. This shows that, even in the latter case, type-I transitions are observed at the interface. Following this result, it is proposed that a transition around 1.2 eV, previously assigned to type-II transitions, results in fact from type-I recombinations in a quantum well at the interface. The spatially indirect type-II transitions would occur at ≊1.3 eV, and could be observed up to now only for reverse interfaces (InP grown on InAlAs).

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