OPTICAL 3RD-HARMONIC STUDIES OF THE DISPERSION IN (CHI)OVER-BAR((3)) FOR GALLIUM NITRIDE THIN-FILMS ON SAPPHIRE

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MIRAGLIOTTA, J
WICKENDEN, DK
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[1] Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723-6099, Johns Hopkins Road
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10.1103/PhysRevB.50.14960
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Third-harmonic (TH) transmission spectroscopy was used to study the dispersion in the xxxx(3) element of the third-order susceptibility in wurtzite-phase gallium nitride (GaN) films on sapphire. Analysis of the nonlinear response showed an enhancement in xxxx(3) when the photon energy of the TH field was tuned to the absorption edge, Eg=3.398 eV, with a peak value of 2.7×10-11 e.s.u. Comparison with previous band-structure calculations of xxxx(3) in wide-band-gap zinc-blende semiconductors shows that the dispersion in GaN is qualitatively similar to the third-order response in ZnSe near the absorption edge. © 1994 The American Physical Society.
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