Abstract
AbstractWe performed low temperature photocurrent and photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy on tensile and compressively strained GaxIn1-xAs/GaInAsP quantum well layers to determine the band offset of the heterojunction (0.3 <XGa < 0.7). The ratio of the conduction band discontinuity to the heavy hole discontinuity has been obtained from well to barrier transitions and is found to be about 35/65 for gallium contents between 0.4 and 0.6. We obtained the effective heavy hole mass by comparison of PLE transition energies with calculations of the subband levels. We observe that the effective heavy hole mass increases with the gallium content from 0.3 m0 for XGa = 0.31 to about 0.45m0 for XGa = 0.55.
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