Optical properties and heterojunction band alignment in fully coherent strain-compensated InAsxP1-x/GayIn1-yP multilayers on InP(001)

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2320-2326

  Beaudoin, M ^a,d   Desjardins, P ^b   Ait Ouali A ^c   Brebner, J L ^c   Yip, R Y F ^c,e   Marchand, H ^c,f   Isnard, L ^c   Masut, R A ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d Ecl Polytech de Montréal ^*  (United States)

^e KLA TENCOR CORPORATION   (United States)

^f University of California   (United States)

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EID: 0013451174     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.372181     Document Type: Article

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