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Entropy Effects in the Self-Organized Formation of Nanostructures
A finite-temperature thermodynamic theory is developed for arrays of submonolayer islands in heteroepitaxial systems. It is established that the temperature dependence of the average island size at temperature...
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Quantum dots for GaAs-based surface emitting lasers at 1300 nm
InGaAs quantum dots (QD's) on GaAs substrate have been fabricated using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) for the use in vertical cavity surface emitting laser di...
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Diode lasers based on quantum dots
Semiconductor diode lasers are presented whose active medium consists of quantum dots (QDs). Laser operation is based on zero-dimensionally localized carriers. High density arrays of uniform QDs are fabricated...
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MBE Growth of (In,Ga)As Self-Assembled Quantum Dots for Optoeletronic Applications
Quantum dot (QD) arrays are considered now to be very promising in semiconductor laser applications. Single quantum dot represents a potential quantum well in which the carrier motion is quantised in all three...
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Carrier Capture and Stimulated Emission in Quantum Wire Lasers Grown on Nonplanar Substrates
The excess carrier capture and stimulated emission processes in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wires (QWRs) grown by organometallic chemical vapor deposition on nonplanar substrates are discussed. These crescent shaped w...
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High Injection Effects in GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wells: Spontaneous Recombination and Band-Gap Renormalization
In this paper, we report a feasible experimental approach to high injection effects in semiconductor light sources. We show that by measuring the junction voltage, the differential lifetime, and the relative o...
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4He and 3He Calorimetric Absorption Spectroscopy: Principles and Results on InGaAs/AlInAs Quantum Wells and Fe in InP and GaAs
A novel absorption technique, Calorimetric Absorption Spectroscopy (CAS), is compared to other photothermally based spectroscopic methods. CAS is more sensitive than any other low-temperature absorption techni...
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The Interface as a Design Tool for Modelling of Optical and Electronic Properties of Quantum Well Devices
The atomic scale crystallographic and chemical properties of interfaces between semiconductors are of decisive importance for the performance of novel generations of electronic and photonic devices and are in ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Recombination Heating Induced Delayed Energy Relaxation of Nonequilibrium Charge Carriers
Recombination of nonequilibrium carriers leads to an increase of the temperature of the remaining carrier gas, if the recombination rate decreases with increasing energy and/or degenerate statistics applies. T...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SIMS Investigation of p-n Junction Quality in Ion Implanted cw Laser Annealed Silicon
It is well established that silicon samples amorphized by ion implantation can be recrystallized by cw laser annealing [1,2]. The damaged surface layer is reconstructed by laser induced solid phase epitaxy [2,...