THE INFLUENCE OF IMPURITY CONCENTRATION ON EXCITON PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IN GAAS AND INP

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作者
PEN, HF
DRIESSEN, FAJM
OLSTHOORN, SM
GILING, LJ
机构
[1] Dept. of Exp. Solid State Phys., Nijmegen Univ.
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10.1088/0268-1242/7/11/020
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We report an investigation of the exciton photoluminescence (PL) spectra of high-purity nominally n-type GaAs and InP layers, grown by metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy. The results are discussed in terms of exciton-polariton kinetics. The ratio of the integrated emission intensities of neutral donor-bound exciton (D0, X) transitions and tree exciton-polariton (FX) transitions r(DF) = I(D0, X)/I(FX) shows a sublinear dependence upon neutral donor concentration n(D)0 deduced from 77 K Hall measurements. This relationship is particularly useful for estimating carrier concentrations in high-purity materials, which cannot be characterized by Hall measurements due to depletion.
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