On the luminescence of freshly introduced a-screw dislocations in low-resistance GaN
- Saint Petersburg State University (Russian Federation)
Using scanning electron microscopy in the cathodoluminescence mode, it is shown that straight segments of a-screw dislocations introduced by plastic deformation at room temperature into unintentionally doped low-resistance gallium nitride luminesce in the spectral range 3.1–3.2 eV at 70 K. The spectral composition of dislocation luminescence shows a fine doublet structure with a component width of ∼15 meV and splitting of ∼30 meV, accompanied by LO-phonon replicas. Luminescent screw dislocations move upon exposure to an electron beam and at low temperatures, but retain immobility for a long time without external excitation. Optical transitions involving the quantum-well states of a stacking fault in a split-dislocation core are considered to be the most probable mechanism of the observed phenomenon.
- OSTI ID:
- 22469798
- Journal Information:
- Semiconductors, Vol. 49, Issue 9; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2015 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7826
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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