Abstract
Strong enhancements of the exciton binding energy (), compared to bulk GaAs, are deduced from high-resolution spectroscopic studies of shallow GaAs-As quantum wells, with aluminum concentrations of (1–4.5)%. A clear increasing trend in from 5.9 meV at 1% aluminum to 7.0 meV at 4.5% is deduced, in good agreement with the predictions of variational calculations. Even at 1%, the value of represents an enhancement of 40% over that in three-dimensional GaAs. The similarity of all the spectra supports strongly the marked two dimensionality of the lowest exciton states, even for very low barrier heights.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.50.11251
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