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Thermal carrier emission and nonradiative recombinations in nonpolar (Al,Ga)N/GaN quantum wells grown on bulk GaN

Corfdir, Pierre Michel  
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Dussaigne, Amélie  
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Giraud, Etienne  
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2012
Journal of Applied Physics

We investigate, via time-resolved photoluminescence, the temperature-dependence of charge carrier recombination mechanisms in nonpolar (Al,Ga)N/GaN single quantum wells (QWs) grown via molecular beam epitaxy on the a-facet of bulk GaN crystals. We study the influence of both QW width and barrier Al content on the dynamics of excitons in the 10-320 K range. We first show that the effective lifetime of QW excitons s increases with temperature, which is evidence that nonradiative mechanisms do not play any significant role in the low-temperature range. The temperature range for increasing s depends on the QW width and Al content in the (Al,Ga)N barriers. For higher temperatures, we observe a reduction in the QW emission lifetime combined with an increase in the decay time for excitons in the barriers, until both exciton populations get fully thermalized. Based on analysis of the ratio between barrier and QW emission intensities, we demonstrate that the main mechanism limiting the radiative efficiency in our set of samples is related to nonradiative recombination in the (Al,Ga)N barriers of charge carriers that have been thermally emitted from the QWs.

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research article
DOI
10.1063/1.3681816
Web of Science ID

WOS:000301029800033

Author(s)
Corfdir, Pierre Michel  
Dussaigne, Amélie  
Giraud, Etienne  
Ganière, Jean-Daniel  
Grandjean, Nicolas  
Deveaud-Plédran, Benoît  
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

American Institute of Physics

Published in
Journal of Applied Physics
Volume

111

Article Number

033517

Subjects

nonpolar (Al,Ga)N/GaN, Time-resolved photoluminescence

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http://jap.aip.org/resource/1/japiau/v111/i3/p033517_s1
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NON-REVIEWED

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February 15, 2012
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