[111]B-oriented GaAsSb grown by gas source molecular beam epitaxy

We report the GaAsSb bulk layers and GaAsSb/GaAs quantum wells (QWs) grown on (1 1 1)B GaAs substrates by gas source molecular beam epitaxy. We found that Sb composition in the GaAsSb epilayers is very sensitive to the substrate temperature. The composition drops from 0.35 to 0.16 as the substrate temperature increases from 450 to 550 1C. The [1 1 1]B-oriented GaAsSb epilayers show phase separation when the substrate temperature is lower than 525 1C. For a GaAsSb/GaAs multiple quantum wells (MQWs) structure composed of five periods of 5 nm GaAs0.73Sb0.27 QW and 30 nm GaAs barrier, the room temperature photoluminescence emission is located at 1255, 80 nm longer than the [1 0 0]-oriented sample with the same Sb composition. The peak wavelength shows significant blue shift as the excitation level increases, which evidences the type-II band alignment in this heterostructure. r 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.