TY - JOUR
TI - Ion irradiation induced nitrogen mobility in a GaInNAs quantum well laser
AU - Qiu, Y.N.
AU - Papaioannou, G.
AU - Pozo, J.
AU - Rorison, J.M.
AU - Saarinen, M.
AU - Konttinen, J.
AU - Viheriälä, J.
AU - Leinonen, P.
AU - Jouhti, T.
AU - Pessa, M.
JO - Semiconductor science and technology
PY - 2008
VL - 23
TODO - 7
SP - null
PB - 
SN - 0268-1242
TODO - 10.1088/0268-1242/23/7/075028
TODO - Arsenic compounds;  Astrophysics;  Gallium nitride;  Ions;  Nitrogen;  Nonmetals;  Optical properties;  Pulsed laser deposition;  Quantum well lasers;  Semiconducting cadmium telluride;  Semiconductor quantum wells;  Semiconductor quantum wires, Annealing conditions;  Band gaps;  Blue shifting;  Cohesive energies;  Competing mechanisms;  Competing processes;  Gainnas;  High temperature (HT);  Ion irradiations;  Lasing wavelength shifts;  Lasing wavelengths;  Lattice sites;  Low-temperature (LT) annealing;  Nitrogen mobility;  Optical (PET) (OPET);  Particle bombardment;  Quantum wells;  Red shifting;  Wave length shifting, Annealing
TODO - Changes in the optical properties in GaInNAs/GaAs quantum wells after alpha particle bombardment followed by low temperature annealing are reported. Both blue and red shifts of the lasing wavelength are observed under different annealing conditions. This differs from the usually observed blue shift which is found after high-temperature post-grown annealing. Competing processes that result in the lasing wavelength shifts are energetic considerations which act to increase the number of Ga-N and In-As bonds (maximize the cohesive energy), minimizing the strain of the system which increases the number of In-N and Ga-As bonds (large-ion-small-ion links), maximizing the number of N located at lattice sites effective at shrinking the band-gap and moving the N position within the quantum well. For the case of high-temperature post-grown annealing the increase of Ga-As and In-N bonding wins, resulting in the blue shift observed. The wavelength shifts are discussed in terms of these competing mechanisms. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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