Abstract
Optical spectroscopy, including low and room temperature photoluminescence (PL), reflectance, PL measurements in high magnetic fields up to 12 T, and resonantly-enhanced electronic Raman scattering (RERS) in zero and high magnetic field, has been used to investigate exciton and impurity states and surface recombination in high quality heteroepitaxial GaN grown on sapphire and SiC. Theoretical finite-difference calculations of the donor states as a function of magnetic field have been carried out for comparison, including the effects of anisotropy in the effective mass and dielectric constant. Up to six residual donor species are observed in material grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) and metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) from their n=2 and n=3 two-electron satellites observed in PL and by RERS. The donor-related nature of the relevant transitions is confirmed from their magnetic field dependence, and the spectral resolution is improved at high fields. The Si donor level is determined to have a binding energy of about 21 meV from observation of its two-electron satellite in lightly Si-doped HVPE material. The free exciton binding energy is shown to be about 26.4 meV, independent of strain, based on observations of the n=2 free exciton. The room temperature band-edge PL peak is confirmed to be free excitonic in nature, based on its linewidth and on comparison with simple reflectance measurements. Reflectance from the edge of a thick HVPE layer shows clear evidence of A, B, and C excitons obeying the relevant selection rules at both low and room temperature. Surface chemical treatments are shown to have substantial effects on room temperature PL efficiency. Passivation with ammonium or sodium sulfide solutions, in particular, yields increases in PL efficiency by a factor of five to seven over air-exposed surfaces. The passivation effect is stable in air, lasting at least one month.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Materials Science
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