Origin of the blueshift in the intersubband infrared absorption in GaAs/As multiple quantum wells
- 15 April 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 43 (12), 9996-9999
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.43.9996
Abstract
The intersubband transition (IT) in GaAs/ As multiple-quantum-well samples measured by the infrared-absorption technique at 5 K is studied as a function of the two-dimensional electron-gas density (σ). A blueshift in the peak-position energy of the IT is observed as σ increases. Single-particle calculations of the optical-absorption spectra, which are obtained by using the nonparabolic-anisotropic envelope-function approximation (EFA), indicate that the peak-position energy should show a redshift as σ is increased. We found that it is necessary to incorporate many-body corrections (in particular electron-electron intrasubband exchange and direct Coulomb interchange energies), depolarization, and excitonlike shifts in the EFA calculations in order to account for the experimental peak-position energy and blueshift as σ is increased.
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