Document Type
Article
Original Publication Date
2001
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
78
Issue
2
DOI of Original Publication
10.1063/1.1338496
Date of Submission
April 2015
Abstract
We have studied the broad blue band, which emerges in the photoluminescence(PL)spectrum of c-plane GaN layers after etching in hot H3PO4 and subsequent exposure to air. This band exhibited a 100 meV blueshift with increasing excitation intensity and a thermal quenching with activation energies of 12 and 100 meV. These observations led us to suggest that surface states may be formed on etchedsurfaces and cause bandbending, which leads to a shift in transition energy with excitation. The blue PL is related to transitions from the shallow donors filled with nonequilibrium electrons to the surface states, which capture the photogenerated holes. The observed irreversible bleaching of the blue luminescence may be attributed to the metastable nature of the surface states or to the oxygen desorption.
Rights
Reshchikov, M.A., Visconti, P., and Morkoç, H. Blue photoluminescence activated by surface states in GaN grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Applied Physics Letters, 78, 177 (2001). Copyright © 2001 AIP Publishing LLC.
Is Part Of
VCU Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications
Comments
Originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1338496