Yellow luminescence and related deep levels in unintentionally doped GaN films

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作者
Shalish, I [1 ]
Kronik, L
Segal, C
Rosenwaks, Y
Shapira, Y
Tisch, U
Salzman, J
机构
[1] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Phys Elect, IL-69978 Ramat Aviv, Israel
[2] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Elect Engn, Inst Solid State, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[3] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Ctr Microelect Res, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1999年 / 59卷 / 15期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.59.9748
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
The deep level energy distribution associated with the well-known "yellow luminescence" in GaN is studied by means of two complementary deep level techniques: photoluminescence and surface photovoltage spectroscopy. The combined experimental results show that the yellow luminescence is due to capture of conduction band electrons, or electrons from shallow donors (with a maximum depth on the order of the thermal energy) by a deep acceptor level with a broad energy distribution, centered at similar to 2.2 eV below die conduction band edge. In addition, the results show that the density of yellow luminescence related states possesses a significant surface component. [S0163-1829(99)16215-5].
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页码:9748 / 9751
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