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Publication
Physical Review B
Paper
Optical studies of vertical ambipolar transport and interface recombination velocities in GaAs/Al0.5Ga0.5As double-quantum-well heterostructures
Abstract
We present a detailed experimental and theoretical study of vertical ambipolar transport in semiconductor heterostructures. A high-resolution time-of-flight method using two vertically separated quantum wells of different well widths is applied to probe the carrier transport perpendicular to the heterointerfaces. By a numerical simulation the ambipolar diffusivities as well as surface and interface recombination velocities in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs structures are determined. This paper emphasizes the importance of surface and interface recombination for the analysis of the transport data. Alloy-disorder scattering is found to limit the ambipolar mobilities between 40 and 120 K in the Al0.5Ga0.5As barriers with acoustic-deformation-potential and polar-optical scattering participating above 120 K. In addition to the transport properties, we also obtain information on carrier capture from the barrier layers into the quantum well as a function of temperature. © 1991 The American Physical Society.