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Dichroism in the transmission of light (the dependence of the transmittance on the direction of polarization of light) is revealed in corrugated GaAs/AlAs superlattices grown on a nanofaceted A(311) surface. It is assumed that the observed effect is associated with the structural anisotropy, i.e., with the formation of an array of GaAs quantum wires. This inference is confirmed by high-resolution electron microscopy. The GaAs/AlAs superlattices containing quantum wires also exhibit polarization anisotropy of the photoluminescence observed in the yellow-red spectral range.
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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2005, pp. 354–356.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Volodin, Efremov, Matvienko, Preobrazhenskiœ, Semyagin, Ledentsov, Soshnikov, Litvinov, Rosenauer, Gerthsen.
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Volodin, V.A., Efremov, M.D., Matvienko, R.S. et al. Dichroism in transmission of light by an array of self-assembled GaAs quantum wires on a nanofaceted A(311) surface. Phys. Solid State 47, 366–369 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1866421
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