Optical and microstructural properties of semi-polar (11-22) InGaN/GaN quantum well structures

被引：16

作者：

Hylton, Nicholas P. ^{[1
]}

Dawson, Philip ^{[1
]}

Johnston, Carol F. ^{[2
]}

Kappers, Menno J. ^{[2
]}

Hollander, Jonathan L. ^{[2
]}

McAleese, Clifford ^{[2
]}

Humphreys, Colin J. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Manchester, Photon Sci Inst, Sch Phys & Astron, Alan Turing Bldg, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England

[2] Univ Cambridge, Dept Mat Sci & Met, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, England

来源：

PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI C: CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, VOL 6, SUPPL 2 | 2009年 / 6卷

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

THREADING DISLOCATIONS; GAN;

D O I：

10.1002/pssc.200880840

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

In this paper we report on a comparison of the optical properties of a series of semi-polar (11-22) InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well structures with those of a series of polar (0001) control samples. In the semi-polar structures we observe blue-shifts of the quantum well emission, increases of the radiative recombination rates and sharpening of the quantum well excitation spectra; all these changes are compatible with a decrease in the magnitude of the electric field strength with respect to the control samples. However the reduction in the electric field strength does not translate into an improvement in the photoluminescence internal quantum efficiency at room temperature. This failure we attribute to an increased density of non-radiative recombination centres, arising from the larger dislocation density in the (11-22) samples. Using TEM and STEM-HAADF measurements we have also observed gross well width fluctuations in the (11-22) samples which result in broadening of the photoluminescence spectra. (C) 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

引用

页码：S727 / S730

页数：4

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