Photoluminescence from GaN films grown by MBE on an LiGaO2 substrate

A V Andrianov; D E Lacklison; J W Orton; T S Cheng; C T Foxon; K P O'Donnell; J F H Nicholls

doi:10.1088/0268-1242/12/1/012

Photoluminescence from GaN films grown by MBE on an LiGaO2 substrate

A V Andrianov, D E Lacklison, J W Orton, T S Cheng, C T Foxon, K P O'Donnell, J F H Nicholls

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GaN films were grown by the MBE method on LiGaO₂ substrates. Photoluminescence (PL) of the epitaxial films has been studied to characterize the films ex situ. The room-temperature PL spectrum contains an edge PL band and also a broad band of deep-level emission at 2.6 eV. This deep-level emission becomes very small in comparison with the edge emission at helium temperatures. Analysis of the low-temperature data suggests that the films contain both hexagonal and cubic crystallites. The main PL lines at 5.7 K are due to emission of excitons bound on neutral donors in hexagonal and cubic phases of the epitaxial film (3.472 eV and 3.263 eV), D-A pair recombination (3.154 eV) and also free electron-neutral acceptor transition (3.185 eV) in c-GaN. The involved acceptor has a binding energy of about 115 meV.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	59-63
Number of pages	5
Journal	Semiconductor Science and Technology
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0268-1242/12/1/012
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1997

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GaN films
gallium nitride
III-nitrides

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