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EPL
Volume 88, Number 1, October 2009
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| Article Number | 17001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/88/17001 | |
| Published online | 09 October 2009 | |
Reversal of spin polarization direction in excitonic photoluminescence of AlGaAs
1
Institute of Semiconductor Physics - 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
2
Experimental Physik I, University of Bayreuth - D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany, EU
3
Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - E-28049 Madrid, Spain, EU
Corresponding author: gilinsky@thermo.isp.nsc.ru
Received:
6
September
2009
Accepted:
25
September
2009
An anomalous reversal of the direction of exciton spin polarization is found in an optical-orientation study of AlxGa
As alloys. A negative degree of circular polarization of excitonic photoluminescence is observed in direct-gap AlGaAs under excitation with circularly polarized light with the photon energy lying in a narrow range just above the free-exciton transition. The resonant switching of the polarization direction is attributed to the effect of the minor residual strain in the epitaxial film that results in lifting of the degeneracy of the light-and heavy-hole sub-bands. The electron g-factor is estimated from combined time-resolved and Hanle-effect data and amounts to 0.056–0.086 for x = 15% alloy.
PACS: 72.25.Rb – Spin relaxation and scattering / 78.30.Fs – III–V and II–VI semiconductors / 78.55.-m – Photoluminescence, properties and materials
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