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A micrometer-size movable light emitting area in a resonant tunneling light emitting diode

Pettinari, G; Balakrishnan, N; Makarovsky, O; Campion, RP; Polimeni, A; Capizzi, M; Patanè, A

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Authors

G Pettinari

O Makarovsky

RP Campion

A Polimeni

M Capizzi

A Patanè



Abstract

We report on the fabrication of a micrometer-size movable light emitting area in a GaAs/AlAs quantum well resonant tunneling p-i-n diode. The spatial position of the micrometer-size light emitting area shifts linearly with increasing applied bias, up to 30?µm for a bias increment of 0.2?V. Also, the simultaneous resonant tunneling injection of both electrons and holes into the quantum well states is achieved at specific positions of the diode, thus resulting in a tenfold increase of the electroluminescence intensity.

This work was supported by the EU (under Grant Agreement No. PIEF-GA-2010-272612), The Royal Society (RG110416), The University of Nottingham, and the Italian MIUR (under the FIRB project DeLIGHTeD, Prot. RBFR12RS1W). We thank the EPSRC National Center for III–V Technologies (K. Kennedy and R. Airey) for device processing and A. Nasir (The University of Nottingham) for assistance during sample preparation.

Acceptance Date Nov 1, 2013
Publication Date Dec 9, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Applied Physics Letters
Print ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher AIP Publishing
Pages 241105 - 241105
DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4844975
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4844975

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