Characterization of InSb QDs grown on InAs (100) substrate by MBE and MOVPE

• We report on the optical and structural characterization of InSb QDs in InAs matrix, grown on InAs (100) substrates, for infrared photodetection. InSb has 7% lattice mismatch with InAs forming strained QDs, which are promising for longwave IR applications, due to their type-II band alignment. This report contains material development results of InSb QDs for increasing their emission wavelength towards long-wave IR region. Samples were grown by two techniques of MBE and MOVPE, with different InSb coverage on InAs (100) substrates. Structures grown by MBE reveal QD related photoluminescence at 4 μm. AFM investigations of the MBE grown structures showed uncapped dots of ∼ 35 nm in size and ∼ 3 nm in height, with a density of about 2 × 1010 cm -2. Cross-section TEM investigations of buried InSb layers grown by MBE showed coherently strained QDs for nominal InSb coverage in the range of 1.6 - 2 monolayers (MLs). Layers with InSb coverage more than 2MLs contain relaxed QDs with structural defects due to large amount of strain between InSb and InAs. Samples with such large dots did not show any InSb related luminescence. The MOVPE grown InSb samples exhibit a strong QD related emission between 3.8 to 7.5 μm, depending on the amount of InSb coverage and other growth parameters. We report the longest wavelength observed so far in this material system.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Annan elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

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InAs

Infrared

InSb QDs

MBE

MOVPE

Photodetector

Photoluminescence

TEM

AFM

Band alignments

Emission wavelength

Grown structures

Growth parameters

Long waves

Material development

Material systems

Photo detection

Structural characterization

Structural defect

Indium arsenide

Infrared radiation

Metallorganic vapor phase epitaxy

Molecular beam epitaxy

Monolayers

Photodetectors

Substrates

Transmission electron microscopy

Indium antimonides

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