title: Influence of substrate misorientation on the photoluminescence and structural properties of InGaAs/GaAsP multiple quantum wells.
abstract: InGaAs/GaAsP multiple quantum wells (MQWs) were grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition on vicinal GaAs (001) substrates with different miscut angles of 0°, 2° and 15° towards [110]. The crystal structures of InGaAs/GaAsP were characterized by high-resolution X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. The surface morphologies of InGaAs/GaAsP MQWs were observed by atomic force microscopy. The mechanisms for step flow, step bunching and pyramid growth on 0°, 2° and 15° misoriented substrates were discussed. The results provide a comprehensive phenomenological understanding of the self-ordering mechanism of vicinal GaAs substrates, which could be harnessed for designing the quantum optical properties of low-dimensional systems. From low-temperature photoluminescence, it was observed that the luminescence from the MQWs grown on a vicinal surface exhibits a red-shift with respect to the 0° case. An extra emission was observed from the 2° and 15° off samples, indicating the characteristics of quantum wire and pyramidal self-controlled quantum-dot systems, respectively. Its absence from the PL spectrum on 0° surfaces indicates that indium segregation is modified on the surfaces. The relationship between InGaAs/GaAsP MQWs grown on vicinal substrates and their optical and structural properties was explained, which provides a technological basis for obtaining different self-controlled nanostructures.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials, Taiyuan University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030024, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Hailiang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Shufang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Taiping
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Xuguang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Bingshe
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xu