Photoluminescence studies of Mg-doped and Si-doped gallium nitride epilayers

We present time-, temperature- and intensity-dependent photoluminescence measurements of undoped, n-type and p-type GaN epilayers. In the nominally undoped samples we observe at low temperatures the trapping of free excitons by neutral donors and subsequent radiative recombination. In the n-type Si-...

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Main Authors: Hess, S, Taylor, R, Ryan, J, Cain, N, Roberts, V, Roberts, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1998
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Summary:We present time-, temperature- and intensity-dependent photoluminescence measurements of undoped, n-type and p-type GaN epilayers. In the nominally undoped samples we observe at low temperatures the trapping of free excitons by neutral donors and subsequent radiative recombination. In the n-type Si-doped samples bound-exciton luminescence is dominant over a wide range of temperatures. The luminescence from p-type Mg-doped samples is dominated by shallow-donor-shallow-acceptor pair recombination and by a deep blue centres at 3.0 eV. These two emission bands show identical temperature and linear intensity dependence.