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Room Temperature Optical Studies of GaAs/AlGaAs Coupled Double Quantum Wells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

C. Jagannath
Affiliation:
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254.
B. Elman
Affiliation:
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254.
Emil S. Koteles
Affiliation:
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254.
Y. J. Chen
Affiliation:
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254.
S. Brown
Affiliation:
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254.
C. A. Armiento
Affiliation:
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254.
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Abstract

Room temperature photoreflectance (PR) spectroscopy has been utilized to study the effect of electric fields on the optical properties of GaAs/AlGaAs coupled double quantum wells (CDQWs). The behavior of optical transitions when subjected to electric fields ranging from 0 to 2×105V/cm, was found to be similar to that observed at low temperatures using photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy. Large shifts in the energies of spatially indirect transitions were observed when the CDQW was subjected to modest bias voltages.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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Present address: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21228.

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