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Evaluation of Material Systems for THz Quantum Cascade Laser Active Regions

DETZ, H. ANDREWS, A. KAINZ, M. SCHÖNHUBER, S. ZEDERBAUER, T. MACFARLAND, D. KRALL, M. DEUTSCH, C. BRANDSTETTER, M. KLANG, P. SCHRENK, W. UNTERRAINER, K. STRASSER, G.

Originální název

Evaluation of Material Systems for THz Quantum Cascade Laser Active Regions

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) have been realized in several different material systems. In the mid-infrared, active regions are predominantly based on In0.53Ga0.47As and InAs as quantumwellmaterial. Market-ready devices routinely provide continuous-wave operation at room temperature. For their THz counterparts, the situation is less clear. The most common material system for THz QCLs is the inherently lattice-matched combination of GaAs with Al0.15Ga0.85As barriers. Yet, these devices still only reach a maximum operating temperature of 200 K with a lack of progress within the past years. Based on the identification of key parameters, this work reviews material systems for quantum cascade lasers with an emphasis on material and growth-related aspects and the goal to identify promising candidates for future device generations. Similar active regions realized in different material systems allow to estimate the gain per unit thickness, as well as total growth times and relative thickness errors.

Klíčová slova

III–V heterostructures, intersubband devices, molecular beam epitaxy, quantum cascade lasers, superlattices

Autoři

DETZ, H.; ANDREWS, A.; KAINZ, M.; SCHÖNHUBER, S.; ZEDERBAUER, T.; MACFARLAND, D.; KRALL, M.; DEUTSCH, C.; BRANDSTETTER, M.; KLANG, P.; SCHRENK, W.; UNTERRAINER, K.; STRASSER, G.

Vydáno

26. 9. 2018

ISSN

1862-6300

Periodikum

physica status solidi (a)

Ročník

1

Číslo

1

Stát

Spolková republika Německo

Strany od

1

Strany do

8

Strany počet

8

URL

BibTex

@article{BUT150301,
  author="Hermann {Detz} and Aaron M. {Andrews} and Martin A. {Kainz} and Sebastian {Schönhuber} and Tobias {Zederbauer} and Donald {MacFarland} and Michael {Krall} and Christoph {Deutsch} and Martin {Brandstetter} and Pavel {Klang} and Werner {Schrenk} and Karl {Unterrainer} and Gottfried {Strasser}",
  title="Evaluation of Material Systems for THz Quantum Cascade Laser Active Regions",
  journal="physica status solidi (a)",
  year="2018",
  volume="1",
  number="1",
  pages="1--8",
  doi="10.1002/pssa.201800504",
  issn="1862-6300",
  url="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pssa.201800504"
}