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Emission and HR-XRD varying in GaAs/AlGaInAs heterostructures with InAs quantum dots at annealing

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GaAs/Al0.30Ga0.70As/AlGaInAs/ heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy with embedded InAs quantum dots (QDs) have been investigated before and after thermal annealing at 640 °C for 2 h. Two types of QD structures with the different compositions of cap** layers: (Al0.30Ga0.70As (#1) and Al0.10Ga0.75In0.15As (#2)), are studied using the photoluminescence (PL), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and high-resolution XRD (HR-XRD) techniques. The high PL intensity, smaller half width of PL bands and lower energy of the ground state (GS) emission are detected in the structure with the Al0.10Ga0.75In0.15As cap** layer. The blue shift of PL spectra is detected after annealing and this shift is more significant in the structure with Al0.10Ga0.75In0.15As cap** as well. The last effect has been explained by the efficient Ga/In inter-diffusion at the AlGaInAs/InAs QD interface in #2 owing to the smaller In-As binding energy in comparison with Al-As and Ga-As ones in the studied alloy. The composition variation of the QDs and quantum wells (QWs) due to Ga/In intermixing at annealing has been modeled on the base of the numerical simulation of HR-XRD scans with the help of X′ Pert Epitaxy software.

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The authors thank the CONACYT (258224) and SIP-IPN (20195080) for the financial support.

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  1. ESIME, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Av. IPN, 07738, Mexico City, Mexico

    Georgiy Polupan, Leonardo G. Vega Macotela & Ricardo Cisneros Tamayo

  2. ESFM, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Av. IPN, 07738, Mexico City, Mexico

    Tetyana Torchynska

  3. Universidad Politécnica del Valle de México, Ing. Nanotecnología, Mexico City, Mexico

    Ricardo Cisneros Tamayo

  4. Solid State Electronics Section, CINVESTAV-IPN, Av. IPN, 07320, Mexico City, Mexico

    Arturo Escobosa Echavarría

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Polupan, G., Torchynska, T., Vega Macotela, L.G. et al. Emission and HR-XRD varying in GaAs/AlGaInAs heterostructures with InAs quantum dots at annealing. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 2643–2649 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-019-02803-x

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