Applied Physics Letters, volume 71, issue 1, pages 22-24
Room-temperature continuous-wave lasing from stacked InAs/GaAs quantum dots grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition
F. Heinrichsdorff
1
,
M H Mao
1
,
N. Kirstaedter
1
,
A. Krost
1
,
D. BIMBERG
1
,
A. O. Kosogov
2
,
P. Werner
2
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 1997-07-07
Journal:
Applied Physics Letters
scimago Q1
wos Q2
SJR: 0.976
CiteScore: 6.4
Impact factor: 3.5
ISSN: 00036951, 10773118
DOI:
10.1063/1.120556
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Abstract
We report on quantum dot (QD) lasers made of stacked InAs dots grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. Successful growth of defect-free binary InAs/GaAs QDs with high lateral density (dl⩾4×1010 cm−2) was achieved in a narrow growth parameter window. The room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) intensity is enhanced up to a factor of 3 and the PL peak width is reduced by more than 30% when a thin layer of In0.3Ga0.7As is deposited onto the InAs QDs. A QD laser with a single sheet of such InAs/InGaAs/GaAs QDs exhibits threshold current densities as low as 12.7 and 181 A/cm2 at 100 and 300 K, respectively. Lasers with threefold stacked QDs show ground-state lasing and allow for cw operation at room temperature.
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