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Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Interface-induced lateral anisotropy of semiconductor heterostructures M.O. Nestoklon, JASS 2004 Contents • • • • • Introduction Zincblende semiconductors Interface-induced effects Lateral optical anisotropy: Experimental Tight-binding method – Basics – Optical properties in the tight-binding method • Results of calculations • Conclusion Motivation (001) Plin The light, emitted in the (001) growth direction was found to be linearly polarized This can not be explained by using the Td symmetry of bulk compositional semiconductor Zincblende semiconductors Td symmetry determines bulk semiconductor bandstructure However, we are interested in heterostructure properties. An (001)-interface has the lower symmetry Zincblende semiconductors C A C’ A’ The point symmetry of a single (001)-grown interface is C2v Envelope function approach Electrons and holes with the effective mass The Kane model takes into account complex band structure of the valence band and the wave function becomes a multi-component column. The Hamiltonian is rather complicated… Zincblende semiconductor bandstructure Rotational symmetry If we have the rotational axis C∞, we can define the angular momentum component l as a quantum number l = 0, ±1, ±2, ±3, … l = ±1/2, ±3/2, … Cn has n spinor representations Cn The angular momentum can unambiguously be defined only for l = 0, ±1, ±2, ±3, … -n/2 < l ≤ n/2 l = ±1/2, ±3/2, … C2v contains the second-order rotational axis C2 and does not distinguish spins differing by 2 For the C2v symmetry, states with the spin +1/2 and -3/2 are coupled in the Hamiltonian. Crystal symmetry As a result of the translational symmetry, the state of an electron in a crystal is characterized by the value of the wave vector k and, in accordance with the Bloch theorem, Let us remind that k is defined in the first Brillouin zone. We can add any vector from reciprocal lattice. In the absence of translational symmetry the classification by k has no sense. Examples -X coupling occurs due to translational symmetry breakdown Schematic representation of the band structure of the p-i-n GaAs/AlAs/GaAs tunnel diode. The conduction-band minima at the and X points of the Brillouin zone are shown by the full and dashed lines, respectively. The X point potential forms a quantum well within the AlAs barrier, with the -X transfer process then taking place between the -symmetry 2D emitter states and quasi-localized X states within the AlAs barrier. J. J. Finley et al, Phys. Rev. B, 58, 10 619, (1998) hh-lh mixing E.L. Ivchenko, A. Yu. Kaminski, U. Roessler, Phys. Rev. B 54, 5852, (1996) Type-I and -II heterostrucrures Type I C'A' c Type II C'A' CA C'A' c CA C'A' CA h h v v The main difference is that interband optical transition takes place only at the interface in type-II heterostructure when, in type-I case, it occurs within the whole CA layer Lateral anisotropy (001) Plin type I type II Optical anisotropy in ZnSe/BeTe A.V. Platonov, V. P. Kochereshko, E. L. Ivchenko et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3546 (1999) Optical anisotropy in the InAs/AlSb Situation is typical for type-II heterostructures. Here the anisotropy is ~ 60% F. Fuchs, J. Schmitz and N. Herres, Proc. the 23rd Internat. Conf. on Physics of Semiconductors, vol. 3, 1803 (Berlin, 1996) Tight-binding method: The main idea C A C A C A Tight-binding Hamiltonian … … … … Optical matrix element The choice of the parameters The choice of the parameters V ? In As In As ? ? ? Al Sb Al ? ? As In As In Electron states in thin QWs GaSb GaAs GaSb (strained) A.A. Toropov, O.G. Lyublinskaya, B.Ya. Meltser, V.A. Solov’ev, A.A. Sitnikova, M.O. Nestoklon, O.V. Rykhova, S.V. Ivanov, K. Thonke and R. Sauer, Phys. Rev B, submitted (2004) Lateral optical anisotropy Results of calculations 100 90 80 Plin (%) 70 60 50 , , , 40 V'=0.5 eV V'=0.75 eV V'=1.0 eV 30 3 4 5 6 7 Vxy (eV) E.L. Ivchenko and M.O. Nestoklon, JETP 94, 644 (2002); arXiv http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0403297 (submitted to Phys. Rev. B) Conclusion • A tight-binding approach has been developed in order to calculate the electronic and optical properties of type-II heterostructures. • the theory allows a giant in-plane linear polarization for the photoluminescence of type-II (001)-grown multi-layered structures, such as InAs/AlSb and ZnSe/BeTe. Electron state in a thin QW 0.3 |6, 1/2 ) * |6 , 1/2 ) |7, 1/2 ) |8, -3/2 ) |8, 1/2 ) 0.2 function 0.1 0.0 -0.1 -0.2 -0.3 -40 -20 0 atomic plane number 20 40 The main idea of the symmetry analysis If crystal lattice has the symmetry transformations Then the Hamiltonian is invariant under these transformations: where is point group representation Time inversion symmetry Basis functions • Для описания экспериментальных данных необходим – учёт спин-орбитального расщепления валентной зоны – для описания непрямозонных полупроводников “верхние орбитали” (s*) ~ 20-зонная модель. 15 параметров Hamiltonian matrix elements Optical matrix elements