Picosecond acoustics in single quantum wells of cubic GaN/(Al,Ga)N

A picosecond acoustic pulse is used to study the photoelastic interaction in single zinc-blende GaN/AlxGa1−xN quantum wells. We use an optical time-resolved pump-probe setup and demonstrate that tuning the photon energy to the quantum well’s lowest electron-hole transition makes the experiment sensi...

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Main Authors: Czerniuk, T., Ehrlich, T., Wecker, T., As, D.J., Yakovlev, D.R., Akimov, A.V., Bayer, M.
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Published: American Physical Society 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41606/
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author Czerniuk, T.
Ehrlich, T.
Wecker, T.
As, D.J.
Yakovlev, D.R.
Akimov, A.V.
Bayer, M.
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Ehrlich, T.
Wecker, T.
As, D.J.
Yakovlev, D.R.
Akimov, A.V.
Bayer, M.
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description A picosecond acoustic pulse is used to study the photoelastic interaction in single zinc-blende GaN/AlxGa1−xN quantum wells. We use an optical time-resolved pump-probe setup and demonstrate that tuning the photon energy to the quantum well’s lowest electron-hole transition makes the experiment sensitive to the quantum well only. Because of the small width, its temporal and spatial resolution allows us to track the few-picosecond-long transit of the acoustic pulse. We further deploy a model to analyze the unknown photoelastic coupling strength of the quantum well for different photon energies and find good agreement with the experiments.
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spelling nottingham-416062020-05-04T18:31:00Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41606/ Picosecond acoustics in single quantum wells of cubic GaN/(Al,Ga)N Czerniuk, T. Ehrlich, T. Wecker, T. As, D.J. Yakovlev, D.R. Akimov, A.V. Bayer, M. A picosecond acoustic pulse is used to study the photoelastic interaction in single zinc-blende GaN/AlxGa1−xN quantum wells. We use an optical time-resolved pump-probe setup and demonstrate that tuning the photon energy to the quantum well’s lowest electron-hole transition makes the experiment sensitive to the quantum well only. Because of the small width, its temporal and spatial resolution allows us to track the few-picosecond-long transit of the acoustic pulse. We further deploy a model to analyze the unknown photoelastic coupling strength of the quantum well for different photon energies and find good agreement with the experiments. American Physical Society 2017-01-11 Article PeerReviewed Czerniuk, T., Ehrlich, T., Wecker, T., As, D.J., Yakovlev, D.R., Akimov, A.V. and Bayer, M. (2017) Picosecond acoustics in single quantum wells of cubic GaN/(Al,Ga)N. Physical Review Applied, 7 (1). 014006/1-014006/6. ISSN 2331-7019 http://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.014006 doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.014006 doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.014006
spellingShingle Czerniuk, T.
Ehrlich, T.
Wecker, T.
As, D.J.
Yakovlev, D.R.
Akimov, A.V.
Bayer, M.
Picosecond acoustics in single quantum wells of cubic GaN/(Al,Ga)N
title Picosecond acoustics in single quantum wells of cubic GaN/(Al,Ga)N
title_full Picosecond acoustics in single quantum wells of cubic GaN/(Al,Ga)N
title_fullStr Picosecond acoustics in single quantum wells of cubic GaN/(Al,Ga)N
title_full_unstemmed Picosecond acoustics in single quantum wells of cubic GaN/(Al,Ga)N
title_short Picosecond acoustics in single quantum wells of cubic GaN/(Al,Ga)N
title_sort picosecond acoustics in single quantum wells of cubic gan/(al,ga)n
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41606/
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