MOVPE 生长GaN薄膜的 光致黄带发光与激发光源的相关性

用四种不同光源作为激发光源,研究了蓝宝石衬底金属有机物汽相外延方法生长的氮化镓薄膜的光致发光特性。结果发现用连续光作为激发光源时,光致发光谱中除出现365 nm的带边发射峰外,同时观察到中心波长位于约550 nm 的较宽黄带发光;而用脉冲光作为激发光源时其发光光谱主要是365 nm附近的带边发光峰,未观察到黄带发光。氮化镓薄膜的光致发光特性依赖于所用的激发光源性质。

Correlation of the Yellow Photoluminescence and Excitation Sources of GaN Film Grown by MOVPE

The Ⅲ-Ⅴ nitrides have been nowadays successfully used as active layer in high-brightness blue and green light emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers diodes (LDs). It is more essential to know optical properties of the GaN based semiconductor materials such as optical band gap and radiation recombination transition prior to new devices fabrication. Photoluminescence (PL) spectrum is the most common tools to be employed for studying gap states in GaN. A frequent finding is that when GaN films are exposed to super-band gap illumination, a characteristic yellow luminescence band (YLB) is often observed. Many studies have attempted to uncover the origin of the yellow luminescence in GaN films. In this paper, we present an experimental investigation of the selected GaN samples grown by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE), using photoluminescence (PL) spectra excited with different excitation sources. The samples studied here are nominally un-doped GaN of 1 000 nm thick grown on a 10~30 nm AlN epilayer by MOVPE. Prior to the GaN epilayer growth, a 5~10 nm thick AlN buffer layer was grown on c-plane Al₂O₃ substrate. The PL spectra of the sample are excited separately by using four different excitation light sources. The correlation of the photoluminescence spectra and excitation source of the GaN film grown by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy on sapphire substrates were investigated. By analysis of the PL spectra, it has been found that the yellow luminescence band appears when continuous wave Xe lamp and He-Cd laser sources are used. The central wavelength of wider YLB is located at near 550 nm and the main peak of the band edge emission is observed at 365 nm. The YLB tends to disappear when, He-Cd and YAG pulse wave sources are employed. This phenomenon was attributed to impurity band saturation when the samples were excited by the pulse wave light sources with the high power density. It was concluded that the yellow radiation evidently depends on the excited light source.