Selective excitation of the yellow luminescence of GaN

Conference · Thu Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:764349

Colton, J S ^[1]; Yu, P Y; Teo, K L; Weber, E R; Grzegory, I; Uchida, K

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The yellow luminescence of n-type GaN has been studied with selective excitation using a combination of Ar ion and dye lasers. Narrower structures whose peak energies follow the excitation photon energy over the width of the yellow luminescence have been observed. Unlike the yellow luminescence excited by above band gap excitations, these fine structures exhibits thermal activated quenching behavior. We propose that these fine structures are due to emission occurring at complexes of shallow donors and deep acceptors which can be resonantly excited by photons with energies below the band gap. The activation energy deduced from their intensity is that for delocalization of electrons out of the complexes. Our results therefore suggest that there is more than one recombination channel (usually assumed to be due to distant donor-acceptor pairs) to the yellow luminescence in GaN.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director, Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 764349
• Report Number(s): LBNL--44298
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ACTIVATION ENERGY
DEFECTS
DYE LASERS
ELECTRONS
EXCITATION
FINE STRUCTURE
LUMINESCENCE
LUMINESCENCE GAN
PHOTONS
QUENCHING
RECOMBINATION