II-VI LASER DIODES WITH QUANTUM WELLS GROWN BY ATOMIC LAYER EPITAXY AND MIGRATION ENHANCED EPITAXY

摘要

A method for using atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) and/or migration enhanced epitaxy (MEE) to grow high efficiency quantum wells in II-VI laser diodes. The substrate and previously grown layers of the laser diode are heated to a temperature less than or equal to about 200 DEG C in an MBE chamber. Sources of Cd, Zn, and Se are injected alternately into the chamber to grow a short-period strained-layer superlattice (SPSLS) quantum well layer including overlaying monolayers of Cd, Zn and Se. The quantum well layer is described by the notation [(CdSe)m(ZnSe)n]p where m, n and p are integers.