Title
Determination of mobility edge in presence of metal-to-insulator transition
Date Issued
01 April 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of São Paulo
Publisher(s)
Academic Press
Abstract
Determination of mobility edge in presence of metal-to-insulator transition Recombination dynamics of excitons was studied in multiple narrow quantum well GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. Disorder generated by interface roughness considerably affects transport of the conduction band electrons and at appropriate quantum well width results in a metal-to insulator transition. Localization of the electrons was found to be responsible for the exciton recombination time measured in the vicinity of the metal-to-insulator transition. Measurement of the exciton recombination time as a function of the energy allowed for determination of the critical energy of the mobility edge attributed to the conduction band electrons. The mobility edge energy obtained in this way demonstrates intersection with the Fermi level energy at the critical disorder corresponding to the metal-to-insulator transition.
Start page
156
End page
161
Volume
104
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85013768608
Source
Superlattices and Microstructures
ISSN of the container
07496036
Sponsor(s)
financial supports from the Brazilian agencies FAPESP grants n° 2014/24288-6, n° 2015/16191-5 and CNPq grant n° 305837/2015-0 are gratefully acknowledged.
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