1. Raman scattering by folded acoustic phonons in InGaN/GaN superlattices
- Author
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Ibáñez Insa, Jordi, Rapaport, A., Boney, C., Oliva, Ramón, Cuscó, Ramón, Bensaoula, A., and Artús, Lluís
- Subjects
Raman scattering ,Superlattices ,Folded acoustic phonons - Abstract
We use Raman scattering to investigate the folded longitudinal acoustic (LA) phonons in a series of In xGa 1-xN/GaN superlattices (SLs) grown by molecular beam epitaxy with different compositions (15% < x < 38%) and SL periods (from 8 to 20 nm). A novel, ultralow wavenumber filtering module, which provides access to ultralow wavenumber Raman modes on single-grating spectrometers, has been used to perform the Raman measurements. Zone-folding effects are observed, and the wavenumber behavior of the folded LA modes is well reproduced with a linear dispersion for the folded LA modes as predicted by elastic continuum theory. We employ the wavenumber of the doublets to evaluate the period of the SLs. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Financial support from the Spanish Ministry and Innovation (Project MAT2010-16116) and from CSIC (PIE 2009) is acknowl- edged.
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- 2012