@article{PietschGrigorianGrenzeretal.2003, author = {Pietsch, Ullrich and Grigorian, Souren A. and Grenzer, J{\"o}rg and Feranchuk, S. and Zeimer, Ute}, title = {Grazing-incidence diffraction study of strain-modulated single quantum well nanostructures}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{PietschGrenzerGrigorianetal.2004, author = {Pietsch, Ullrich and Grenzer, J{\"o}rg and Grigorian, Souren A. and Weyers, Markus and Zeimer, Ute and Feranchuk, S. and Fricke, J. and Kissel, H. and Knauer, A. and Tr{\"a}nkle, G.}, title = {Nanoengineering of lateral strain-modulation in quantum well heterostructures}, year = {2004}, abstract = {We have developed a method to design a lateral band-gap modulation in a quantum well heterostructure. The lateral strain variation is induced by patterning of a stressor layer grown on top of a single quantum well which itself is not patterned. The three-dimensional (3D) strain distribution within the lateral nanostructure is calculated using linear elasticity theory applying a finite element technique. Based on the deformation potential approach the calculated strain distribution is translated into a local variation of the band-gap energy. Using a given vertical layer structure we are able to optimize the geometrical parameters to provide a nanostructure with maximum lateral band-gap variation. Experimentally such a structure was realized by etching a surface grating into a tensile-strained InGaP stressor layer grown on top of a compressively strained InGaAs-single quantum well. The achieved 3D strain distribution and the induced band-gap variation are successfully probed by x-ray grazing incidence diffraction and low-temperature photoluminescence measurements, respectively}, language = {en} }