ISSN:
1089-7550
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
The photoluminescence (PL) peak positions of the ground state heavy and light-hole excitons on high-quality Molecular Beam Epitaxy grown GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs (x=0.3 and 1) multiquantum-well structures have been experimentally determined in the temperature range 4.2≤T≤340 K. Using these values and the well-known low-temperature energy of the GaAs Γ8V-Γ6C gap [EgΓ(GaAs,T=0 K)=1.5192 eV], we propose the temperature dependence to be EgΓ(GaAs,T)= 1.5192+5.16×10−5×T−1.99×10−6×T2 +2.60×10−9×T3 (EgΓ in eV). The nearly linear variation of EgΓ(GaAs,T) versus the temperature in the range 170 K≤T≤340 K can be approximated by a coefficient (dEgΓ/dT)=−4.4×10−4 eV/K, in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.354674
