Time-resolved dislocation-related luminescence in strain-relaxed SiGe/Si

被引:6
作者
Fukatsu, S [1 ]
Mera, Y [1 ]
Inoue, M [1 ]
Maeda, K [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TOKYO,DEPT APPL PHYS,BUNKYO KU,TOKYO 153,JAPAN
关键词
silicon; germanium; luminescence; dislocation;
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10.1016/S0040-6090(96)09290-5
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) of dislocation-related features (D1-D4) was studied in strain-relaxed molecular beam epitaxy SiGe/Si(100). Low-temperature decay transients are essentially non-exponential for all D bands. The D1, D2 bands are characterized by long (tau > 200 ns) decay times while short (tau < 60 ns) decay times were observed for the D3, D4 bands. Radiative lifetimes as derived from measured decay times imply free-to-bound character of PL origins of the D1, D2 bands while bound-to-bound character for the D3, D4 bands.
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