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Visible Photoluminescence from SI1-xGEx Quantum Wells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

T.W. Steiner ,
L.C. Lenchyshyn ,
M.L.W. Thewalt ,
D.C. Houghton ,
J.-P. Noël ,
N.L. Rowell ,
J.C. Sturm  and
X. Xiao
T.W. Steiner
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, Physics Department, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
L.C. Lenchyshyn
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, Physics Department, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
M.L.W. Thewalt
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, Physics Department, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
D.C. Houghton
Affiliation:
National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
J.-P. Noël
Affiliation:
National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
N.L. Rowell
Affiliation:
National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
J.C. Sturm
Affiliation:
Princeton University, Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton, NJ
X. Xiao
Affiliation:
Princeton University, Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton, NJ
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Abstract

We have observed photoluminescence from strained SiGe quantum well layers at energies approximately equal to twice the SiGe band-gap energy. This luminescence is caused by the simultaneous recombination of two electron hole pairs yielding a single photon. Detection of luminescence at twice the band-gap has been previously used in Si to observe luminescence originating from electron-hole droplets, biexcitons, bound multiexciton complexes and polyexcitons. Time resolved spectra at twice the band-gap have been obtained from our SiGe samples prepared by molecular beam epitaxy (MIRE) as well as rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition (RTCVD). This new luminescence clearly distinguishes multiexciton or dense e-h plasma processes from single exciton processes such as bound excitons, free excitons or localized excitons, which are difficult to separate in the usual nearinfrared luminescence.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 298: Symposium B – Silicon-Based Optoelectronic Materials , 1993 , 15
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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