Selective and tunable red- or blue-shift emissions of GaAsP quantum well heterostructures

WeiFu Wang; Kai-Yuan Cheng; Ching-Yi Huang; Wei-Ting Liu; Bao-Hsien Wu; Yu-Chen Cheng; Kuang-Chien Hsieh

doi:10.1117/12.2080648

10 March 2015 Selective and tunable red- or blue-shift emissions of GaAsP quantum well heterostructures

WeiFu Wang, Kai-Yuan Cheng, Ching-Yi Huang, Wei-Ting Liu, Bao-Hsien Wu, Yu-Chen Cheng, Kuang-Chien Hsieh

Proceedings Volume 9382, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers XIV; 93821U (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2080648
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In this work we demonstrate tunable red- or blue-shift emissions of GaAs_0.9P_0.1 quantum well (QW) heterostructures. The wavelength shift is achieved by ampoule sealed post-growth annealing of QW with different combinations of dielectric encapsulants and in various ambient conditions. For capless bare samples sealed in ampoules with little arsenic overpressure, furnace anneals at 800°C result in red photoluminescence (PL) shifts asymptotically as much as 75 meV with anneal time up to 40 hours. We attribute this redshift to the inter-diffusion of phosphorous and arsenic in QW and the neighboring confinement layers. For samples capped with a bilayer of SrF₂and SiO_x, similar temporal red shifts appear suggesting the combined dielectrics either prohibit or slow down the diffusion of column III vacancies during anneals. For samples capped with either SiO_x or SiN_x alone their PL spectra first shift toward longer wavelength then toward shorter wavelength. The large turn-around blue-shift (up to 165meV for 40hr annealing under 800°C) is attributed to the intermixing of Ga in QW and Al in the confinement layers. Additional complexity arises when As overpressure is replaced with Ga overpressure. For samples similarly capped with either SiO_x or SiN_x films, the turn-around blue-shift proceeds much faster (up to 281meV for only 5-hr annealing at 800°C). We attribute the slower blue-shift to the generation and diffusion of column III vacancies while the faster blue-shift to the kick-out of Zn-dopants in the heavily doped contact layer.

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WeiFu Wang, Kai-Yuan Cheng, Ching-Yi Huang, Wei-Ting Liu, Bao-Hsien Wu, Yu-Chen Cheng, and Kuang-Chien Hsieh "Selective and tunable red- or blue-shift emissions of GaAsP quantum well heterostructures", Proc. SPIE 9382, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers XIV, 93821U (10 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2080648

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