Depth distribution of carrier lifetimes in semipolar (11macron01) GaN grown by MOCVD on patterned Si substrates

Semipolar (11macron01) GaN layers and GaN/InGaN LED structures were grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition on patterned (001) Si substrates. Optical properties of the semipolar samples were studied by steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL). Photon energies and intensities of emission lines from steady-state PL as well as carrier decay times from time-resolved PL were correlated with the distributions of extended defects studied by spatially resolved cathodoluminescence and nearfield scanning optical microscopy. Intensity of donor-bound exciton (DX) emission from both coalesced and non-coalesced semipolar layers is comparable to that of state-of-art c-plane GaN template. To gain insight into the contribution from near surface region and deeper portion of the layers to carrier dynamics in polar c-plane and semipolar (11macron01) GaN, time-resolved PL was measured with two different excitation wavelengths of 267 and 353 nm, which provide different excitation depths of about 50 nm and 100 nm, respectively. Time-resolve PL data indicate that the near-surface layer is relatively free from nonradiative centers (point and/or extended defects), while deeper region of the semipolar film (beyond of ~100 nm in depth) is more defective, giving rise to shorter decay times.

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