TY - JOUR
T1 - Luminescence dynamics in AlGaN with AlN content of 20%
AU - Soltani, Sonia
AU - Bouzidi, Mouhamed
AU - Touré, Alhousseynou
AU - Gerhard, Marina
AU - Halidou, Ibrahim
AU - Chine, Zied
AU - El Jani, Belgacem
AU - Shakfa, Mohammad Khaled
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: Financial support from the Tunisian General Directorate of Scientific and Technical Research (DGRST) is gratefully acknowledged. The authors are very grateful to Prof. Dr. Martin Koch of the Physics department of the Philipp University of Marburg for giving the opportunity to perform time-resolved photoluminescence measurements in his laboratories. The authors would like to thank the CRHEA CNRS Sophia-Antipolis for SEM analysis.
PY - 2016/12/14
Y1 - 2016/12/14
N2 - Optical properties and carrier dynamics of an AlGaN layer with an AlN content of 20% have been studied using time-resolved photoluminescence (TR-PL). Despite the high density of defects due to the relatively high AlN content, an intense PL emission from the sample has been detected. Low-temperature PL spectra exhibit several features, accompanied by a strong emission-wavelength dependence of the PL decay time. A significant red-shift of more than 200 meV from the band edge is recorded for the PL emission from localized states. Temperature-dependent PL spectra of the sample are dominated by the emission from localized states and, furthermore, show a relatively slight decrease by almost an order of magnitude with increasing temperature from 45 to 300 K. Our observations indicate strong, spatial localization effects of carriers, resulting in an increase in the radiative recombination rate.
AB - Optical properties and carrier dynamics of an AlGaN layer with an AlN content of 20% have been studied using time-resolved photoluminescence (TR-PL). Despite the high density of defects due to the relatively high AlN content, an intense PL emission from the sample has been detected. Low-temperature PL spectra exhibit several features, accompanied by a strong emission-wavelength dependence of the PL decay time. A significant red-shift of more than 200 meV from the band edge is recorded for the PL emission from localized states. Temperature-dependent PL spectra of the sample are dominated by the emission from localized states and, furthermore, show a relatively slight decrease by almost an order of magnitude with increasing temperature from 45 to 300 K. Our observations indicate strong, spatial localization effects of carriers, resulting in an increase in the radiative recombination rate.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622780
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pssa.201600481/full
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85008250459&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/pssa.201600481
DO - 10.1002/pssa.201600481
M3 - Article
SN - 1862-6300
VL - 214
SP - 1600481
JO - physica status solidi (a)
JF - physica status solidi (a)
IS - 4
ER -