| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 34, Number 3, April 1996
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 213 - 218 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1996-00441-9 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Phase space filling and band gap renormalization in the luminescence of highly excited InGaAs/GaAs quantum wires
1
Technische Physik, Universität Würzburg - Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt, Robert-Mayer
Str. 8-10, 60054 Frankfurt, Germany
Received:
17
February
1996
Accepted:
6
March
1996
The influence of many-body effects in one-dimensional (1D) electron-hole (e-h) plasmas on the multi-subband emission of InGaAs/GaAs modulated-barrier quantum well wires (qww's) is investigated. A detailed modelling of the measured photoluminescence (PL) for various excitation intensities permits a clear demonstration of several many-body effects in the spectra. In particular, we observe a transition of an exciton to a plasma emission, and the saturation of the plasma emission of different lateral subband transitions due to band filling. The analysis yields a significant band gap renormalization. The observed red-shifts particularly of the low-energy wings of the spectra are explained in terms of an incomplete compensation between the band edge shifts and the excitonic correlations in these 1D structures.
PACS: 71.45.Gm – Exchange, correlation, dielectric and magnetic functions, plasmons / 78.66.Fd – III-V semiconductors / 71.35.+z – Excitons and related phenomena (including electron-hole drops)
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