% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence
% of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older.
% Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or
% “biber”.
@ARTICLE{Hajlaoui:903607,
author = {Hajlaoui, Mahdi and Ponzoni, Stefano and Deppe, Michael and
Henksmeier, Tobias and As, Donat Josef and Reuter, Dirk and
Zentgraf, Thomas and Springholz, Gunther and Schneider,
Claus Michael and Cramm, Stefan and Cinchetti, Mirko},
title = {{E}xtremely low-energy {ARPES} of quantum well states in
cubic-{G}a{N}/{A}l{N} and {G}a{A}s/{A}l{G}a{A}s
heterostructures},
journal = {Scientific reports},
volume = {11},
number = {1},
issn = {2045-2322},
address = {[London]},
publisher = {Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-05261},
pages = {19081},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Quantum well (QW) heterostructures have been extensively
used for the realization of a wide range of optical and
electronic devices. Exploiting their potential for further
improvement and development requires a fundamental
understanding of their electronic structure. So far, the
most commonly used experimental techniques for this purpose
have been all-optical spectroscopy methods that, however,
are generally averaging in momentum space. Additional
information can be gained by angle-resolved photoelectron
spectroscopy (ARPES), which measures the electronic
structure with momentum resolution. Here we report on the
use of extremely low-energy ARPES (photon energy ~ 7 eV) to
increase depth sensitivity and access buried QW states,
located at 3 nm and 6 nm below the surface of cubic-GaN/AlN
and GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures, respectively. We find that
the QW states in cubic-GaN/AlN can indeed be observed, but
not their energy dispersion, because of the high surface
roughness. The GaAs/AlGaAs QW states, on the other hand, are
buried too deep to be detected by extremely low-energy
ARPES. Since the sample surface is much flatter, the ARPES
spectra of the GaAs/AlGaAs show distinct features in
momentum space, which can be reconducted to the band
structure of the topmost surface layer of the QW structure.
Our results provide important information about the
samples’ properties required to perform extremely
low-energy ARPES experiments on electronic states buried in
semiconductor heterostructures.},
cin = {PGI-6},
ddc = {600},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-6-20110106},
pnm = {5212 - Emergent Quantum Phenomena (POF4-521)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5212},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {34580361},
UT = {WOS:000700619200021},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-021-98569-6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/903607},
}