Yellow luminescence and related deep states in undoped GaN

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作者
Calleja, E [1 ]
Sanchez, FJ [1 ]
Basak, D [1 ]
SanchezGarcia, MA [1 ]
Munoz, E [1 ]
Izpura, I [1 ]
Calle, F [1 ]
Tijero, JMG [1 ]
SanchezRojas, JL [1 ]
Beaumont, B [1 ]
Lorenzini, P [1 ]
Gibart, P [1 ]
机构
[1] CNRS,CRHEA,F-06560 VALBONNE,FRANCE
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1997年 / 55卷 / 07期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.55.4689
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
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摘要
Photocapacitance spectra in undoped, metal-organic vapor-phase-epitaxy-grown GaN layers, in a range of a photon energies from 0.6 to 3.5 eV, reveal two main persistent features: a broad increase of the capacitance from 2.0 to 2.5 eV, and a steep decrease at 1 eV, only observed after a previous Light exposure to photon energies above 2.5 eV. A deep trap (E(v)+1 eV) that captures photoelectrons from the valence band, after being emptied with photons above 2.5 eV, is proposed as the origin of these features. Optical-current deep-level transient spectroscopy results also show the presence of a trap at 0.94 eV above the valence band, only detected after light excitation with photon energies above 2.5 eV. A correlation is found between the ''yellow band'' luminescence intensity at 2.2 eV and the amplitude of the photocapacitance decrease at 1 eV, pointing to a deep trap at 1 eV above the valence band as the recombination path for the yellow band. The detection of the yellow band with below-the-gap photoluminescence excitation supports the proposed model.
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页码:4689 / 4694
页数:6
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