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Diffusion of electron-hole pairs in disordered quantum wires
The diffusivity of photogenerated electron-hole pairs in weakly disordered GaAs/AlGaAs V-groove quantum wires was measured using a photoluminescence (PL) time-of-flight technique. It is shown that the electron-hole pair diffusion is thermally activated above about 50 K. Exciton localization is observed in micro-PL (mu PL) spectra at low temperature. A reduction in the Stokes shift is found to accompany the increase in the diffusion coefficient. Nevertheless, localization-related features in the mu PL spectra disappear at intermediate temperatures, before measurable diffusion occurs.
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research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000260944100043
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Publication date
2008
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Volume
93
Article Number
192101
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NON-REVIEWED
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March 26, 2010
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