Epitaxial growth optimization, measurement and theoretical analysis of strain-compensated QCL grown on (511)A InP
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| author | Cargioli, Alessio Beck, Mattias Faist, Jerome |
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| contents | Interface roughness scattering is an important limiting factor for achieving high performance Quantum Cascade Lasers. Following recent results, we study the growth conditions for a strain-compensated QCL emitting around 4.6 μm grown on a (511)A InP substrate using AFM and XRD measurements. We find that modulating the arsenic flux and correctly tailoring the III/V ratio is fundamental to achieve a good quality material. We report the first lasing device on such a platform with a current density threshold of 1.34 kA/cm2 and a slope efficiency of 1.1 W/A, which result suboptimal compared to the (100) reference. Finally, we find a 7% redshift of the (511)A spectrum which we attribute to an impurity scattering due to the increased incorporation along the exposed (111) direction. We validate this statement by verifying that the change in CBO and effective electron mass due to strain along a non-trivial direction cannot cause such a shift by using the k-p method generalized to arbitrary growth directions |
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| spellingShingle | Epitaxial growth optimization, measurement and theoretical analysis of strain-compensated QCL grown on (511)A InP Cargioli, Alessio Beck, Mattias Faist, Jerome Applied Physics Interface roughness scattering is an important limiting factor for achieving high performance Quantum Cascade Lasers. Following recent results, we study the growth conditions for a strain-compensated QCL emitting around 4.6 μm grown on a (511)A InP substrate using AFM and XRD measurements. We find that modulating the arsenic flux and correctly tailoring the III/V ratio is fundamental to achieve a good quality material. We report the first lasing device on such a platform with a current density threshold of 1.34 kA/cm2 and a slope efficiency of 1.1 W/A, which result suboptimal compared to the (100) reference. Finally, we find a 7% redshift of the (511)A spectrum which we attribute to an impurity scattering due to the increased incorporation along the exposed (111) direction. We validate this statement by verifying that the change in CBO and effective electron mass due to strain along a non-trivial direction cannot cause such a shift by using the k-p method generalized to arbitrary growth directions |
| title | Epitaxial growth optimization, measurement and theoretical analysis of strain-compensated QCL grown on (511)A InP |
| topic | Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04874 |