Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Experimental discovery of the anisotropy of phonon-plasmon modes in GaAs/AlAs(100) superlattices

  • Published:
JETP Letters Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Doped (n-type) GaAs/AlAs superlattices with thicknesses of the GaAs and AlAs layers from 1.7 to 6.8 Å and 13.6 Å, respectively, have been studied by means of Raman spectroscopy. The use of a microattachment for Raman backscattering studies has allowed for the observation of the modes with the wave vector directed both across and along the superlattice layers (in the scattering from the side face of the superlattice). The theoretically predicted anisotropy of mixed phonon-plasmon modes caused by the anisotropy of the electron effective mass in the type II superlattices has been experimentally discovered.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Light Scattering in Solids, Vol. 4: Electronic Scattering, Spin Effects, SERS and Morphic Effects, Ed. by M. Cardona and G. Güntherodt (Springer, Heidelberg, 1984; Mir, Moscow, 1986).

    Google Scholar 

  2. L. A. Fal’kovskii and E. Zh. Mishchenko, Pis’ma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 82, 103 (2005) [JETP Lett. 82, 96 (2005)].

    Google Scholar 

  3. V. E. Bisti, V. E. Kirpichev, L. V. Kulik, and I. V. Kukushkin, Pis’ma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 83, 300 (2006) [JETP Lett. 83, 256 (2006)].

    Google Scholar 

  4. V. A. Volodin, M. D. Efremov, V. A. Sachkov, and N. N. Ledentsov, Phys. Low-Dim. Strut. 5–6, 109 (2003).

    Google Scholar 

  5. V. A. Volodin, M. D. Efremov, V. V. Preobrashenskii, et al., Pis’ma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 71, 698 (2000) [JETP Lett. 71, 477 (2000)].

    Google Scholar 

  6. M. D. Efremov, V. A. Volodin, V. A. Sachkov, et al., Pis’ma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 70, 73 (1999) [JETP Lett. 70, 75 (1999)].

    Google Scholar 

  7. M. Itoh, G. R. Bell, A. R. Avery, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 633 (1998).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. H. Fujimoto, C. Hamaguchi, T. Nakazawa, et al., Phys. Rev. B 41, 7593 (1990).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  9. L. Pavesi and M. Guzzi, J. Appl. Phys. 75, 4779 (1994).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent’eva 13, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    V. A. Volodin

  2. Novosibirsk State University, ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    V. A. Volodin

Authors
  1. V. A. Volodin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to V. A. Volodin.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © V.A. Volodin, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 89, No. 8, pp. 483–485.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Volodin, V.A. Experimental discovery of the anisotropy of phonon-plasmon modes in GaAs/AlAs(100) superlattices. Jetp Lett. 89, 419–421 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364009080098

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364009080098

PACS numbers

Search

Navigation