The influence of variation in InAs monolayer coverage on the formation of self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) was investigated by Photoluminescence (PL), Photoluminescence excitation (PLE), and High-resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD) measurements. Redshift in the PL spectra was observed with increase in monolayer (ML) coverage of InAs QD from 2 ML to 3.4 ML, as a consequence of an increase in dot size. However, the PL peak intensity initially enhanced from 2 ML to 2.7 ML followed by a drop in 3.4 ML, which promulgate the incoherent dot formation along with the facilitation of defects. The full width at half maxima (FWHM) of the lowtemperature ground state emission spectra was found to be around 48 meV for 2 ML and 3.4 ML InAs QD, but for 2.7 ML it was around 40 meV as a result of lower dispersion in dot size. PLE spectra and a prolonged double-peak feature in the power dependent PL spectra revealed that the transition of the size distribution of InAs QD from single-modal to bimodal occurred as the InAs QD coverage increased. Besides, HRXRD measurements explained the formation of compressively strained QDs with increased InAs coverage. The activation energy for all samples was calculated from the temperature-dependent photoluminescence spectra and the optimum value (~327 meV) obtained for 2.7 ML sample, which attributes deeper barrier potential. Thus, possessing efficient activation energy, relaxed strain and predominantly enhanced luminescence, InAs QD with 2.7 ML coverage is the optimized structure for various optoelectronic device applications.
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