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Publication
Physical Review B
Paper
Optical investigations on the mobility of two-dimensional excitons in GaAs/Ga1-xAlxAs quantum wells
Abstract
By time-of-flight studies, the lateral transport of two-dimensional excitons in GaAs/Ga1-xAlxAs quantum wells is studied with a very high spatial resolution (0.1 m) provided by laterally microstructured masks. The motion of the excitons is investigated for different quantum-well widths over a wide temperature range and can be described entirely by isothermal diffusion. In particular, at low temperatures the diffusivity strongly decreases with decreasing well width. The low-temperature mobilities are found to be mainly determined by interface-roughness scattering. In the range where acoustic-deformation-potential scattering is dominant, the mobility of the excitons as a function of temperature and well width is found to agree with the corresponding theoretical mobility limits. The excitonic scattering condition describes the experiment much better than the ambi- polar scattering condition. The comparison of experimental results and calculated mobility limits shows that barrier-alloy disorder scattering significantly affects the mobilities of excitons only in narrow GaAs/Ga1-xAlxAs quantum wells. © 1989 The American Physical Society.