Abstract
Low-temperature photoluminescence, photoluminescence excitation and Raman spectroscopy measurements of CdTeCd 0.90Mn 0.10Te multiple quantum well (MQW) structures grown by pulsed laser evaporation and epitaxy (PLEE) on (001) Cd 1- x Zn x Te substrates are carried out. The samples are grown from fluxes of Cd-Te and Cd-Mn-Te provided by ablation of solid CdTe and Cd 0.93Mn 0.07Te targets with Nd:YAG and excimer XeCl lasers, respectively. The excitonic lines corresponding to the quantum well E 1-HH 1 transition are investigated. Comparison between the observed PL excitonic emissions and calculated energy levels using a Kronig-Penney model with the well width as a fitting parameter allowed us to determine the “optical” well widths of the samples and to compare them with those determined from secondary ion mass spectroscopy in-depth profiles. Raman spectra for non-resonance excitation at 501.7 nm are dominated by the CdTe-like longitudinal optical (LO) modes at 166 cm -1 and MnTe-like LO modes at 194 cm -1 from the Cd 0.90Mn 0.10Te barriers. Under resonance conditions, with excitation at 476.5 nm the CdTe LO, 2LO and 3LO modes from the wells near 170,340 and 510 cm -1 dominate the spectra. The results clearly indicate that the PLEE-grown MQWs have the characteristics of the best currently available material.
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