Piezoelectric effects on the dynamics of optical transitions in GaN/AlxGa1-xN multiple quantum wells

Hyeon S. Kim; Jing Yu Lin; Hongxing Jiang; Weng W. Chow; Andrei Botchkarev; Hadis Morkoc

doi:10.1117/12.349295

24 May 1999 Piezoelectric effects on the dynamics of optical transitions in GaN/Al_xGa_1-xN multiple quantum wells

Hyeon S. Kim, Jing Yu Lin, Hongxing Jiang, Weng W. Chow, Andrei Botchkarev, Hadis Morkoc

Proceedings Volume 3624, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors III; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.349295
Event: Optoelectronics '99 - Integrated Optoelectronic Devices, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Piezoelectric effects on the dynamics of optical transitions in GaN/AlGaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) have been investigated by picosecond time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) measurements. TRPL spectra of the 40 angstroms well MQWs reveal that the excitonic transition is in fact blueshifted at early delay times due to quantum confinement of carriers. The spectral peak position shifts toward lower energies as the delay time increases and becomes redshifted at longer delay times. By comparing experimental and calculation results a low limit of the piezoelectric field strength of about 460 kV/cm in GaN/Al_0.15Ga_0.85N MQWs and the electron and hole wave functions have been obtained. Temporal response of the excitonic transitions of the GaN/AlGaN MQWs depends on the well width. The recombination lifetimes of the 20 angstroms well MQWs decreases monotonously with an increase of emission energy. However, emission energy dependence of the lifetime on 30, 40, 50 angstroms well MQWs which shows a similar behavior as the cw PL spectrum, is quite different from that of 20 angstroms well MQWs. It has been demonstrated that the results described above are due to the presence of the piezoelectric field in the GaN wells of GaN/AlGaN MQWs subject to elastic strain together with screening of the photoexcited carriers and Coulomb interaction.

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Hyeon S. Kim, Jing Yu Lin, Hongxing Jiang, Weng W. Chow, Andrei Botchkarev, and Hadis Morkoc "Piezoelectric effects on the dynamics of optical transitions in GaN/Al_xGa_1-xN multiple quantum wells", Proc. SPIE 3624, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors III, (24 May 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.349295

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