Polarized photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy of a-plane InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells grown on r-plane sapphire
Kundys, D.; Schulz, Stefan; Oehler, F.; Sutherland, D.; Badcock, Tom J.; Dawson, Philip; Kappers, M. J.; Oliver, R. A.; Humphreys, C. J.
Date:
2014
Copyright:
© 2014 AIP Publishing LLC. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. The following article appeared in Kundys, D., Schulz, S., Oehler, F., Sutherland, D., Badcock, T. J., Dawson, P., Kappers, M. J., Oliver, R. A. and Humphreys, C. J. (2014) 'Polarized photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy of a-plane InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells grown on r-plane sapphire', Journal of Applied Physics, 115(11), 113106 (4pp). doi: 10.1063/1.4868692 and may be found at http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4868692
Citation:
Kundys, D., Schulz, S., Oehler, F., Sutherland, D., Badcock, T. J., Dawson, P., Kappers, M. J., Oliver, R. A. and Humphreys, C. J. (2014) 'Polarized photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy of a-plane InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells grown on r-plane sapphire', Journal of Applied Physics, 115(11), 113106 (4pp). doi: 10.1063/1.4868692
Abstract:
We have performed a detailed study of the impact of basal plane stacking faults (BSFs) on the optical properties of both a-plane InGaN/GaN quantum wells (QWs) and GaN template samples grown on r-sapphire. In particular, we have used polarised photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy (P-PLE) to investigate the nature of the low temperature recombination as well as extracting information on the valence band (VB) polarisation anisotropy. Our low temperature P-PLE results revealed not only excitons associated with intersubband quantum well transitions and the GaN barrier material but also a transition associated with creation of excitons in BSFs. The strength of this BSF transition varied with detection energy across the quantum well emission suggesting that there is a significant contribution to the emission line width from changes in the local electronic environment of the QWs due to interactions with BSFs. Furthermore, we observed a corresponding progressive increase in the VB splitting of the QWs as the detection energy was varied across the quantum well emission spectrum. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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