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Optical Properties of GaNAs and GaAsSb Semiconductors

  • LUO Xiang-Dong ,
  • XU Zhong-Ying
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Online published: 2005-09-15

Abstract

Under short pulse laser excitat ion, it has been observed, for the first time, a new high-energy photoluminescence emission from GaNxAs1-xPGaAs SQWs. This new emission has totally different optical properties compared with the localized exciton transition in GaNxAs1-x, and is attributed to the recombination of delocalized excitons in QWs. At the same t ime, a competition process between localized and delocalized exciton emissions in GaNxAs1-xPGaAs quantum wells is observed in the temperaturedependent PL spectra under the short pulse excitation. This competition process for the first time, reveals the physical origin of the temperature-induced S-shaped PL peak shift, which was often reported in the disordered alloy semiconductor system under continuous-wave excitation and puzzled people for a long time. We have also investigated a set of GaNxAs1-x samples with small nitrogen composit ion(x< 1%) by PL, and time-resolved PL.After the PL dependence on temperature and excitation power and PL dynamics were measured, the new PL peak was identified as an intrinsic transition of alloy, rather than N-related bound states. This is the first observation in PL, showing that alloy state exists in GaNxAs1-x materials even when N composition is smaller than 011%. Finally by select ive excitation, both type-I and type-II transitions were observed simultaneously in GaAs1-x SbxPGaAs SQWs for the first time.

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LUO Xiang-Dong , XU Zhong-Ying . Optical Properties of GaNAs and GaAsSb Semiconductors[J]. Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2005 , 22(5) : 645 -655 . DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2005.5.015

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