Presentation and experimental validation of a model for the effect of thermal annealing on the photoluminescence of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Srujan, M ^a   Ghosh, K ^a   Sengupta, S ^a   Chakrabarti, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING EFFECTS; ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; BLUE SHIFT; CARRIER CONFINEMENTS; DEVICE APPLICATION; DINGER EQUATION; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FICKIAN DIFFUSION; HETEROSTRUCTURES; INAS/GAAS; INAS/GAAS QUANTUM DOTS; INTER-DIFFUSION; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; PL SPECTRA; QUANTUM DOTS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SINGLE LAYER; STRAIN EFFECT; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ANNEALING;

EID: 77954194247     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3431388     Document Type: Article

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