Different origins of the yellow luminescence in as-grown high-resistance GaN and unintentional-doped GaN films

The yellow luminescence (YL) in as-grown high-resistance (HR) and unintentional-doped (UID) GaN films grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition has been investigated by means of photoluminescence and monoenergetic positron annihilation spectroscopy. It is found there is stronger YL in UID-GaN with higher concentration of gallium vacancy (VGa), suggesting that VGa-involved defects are the origin responsible for the YL in UID-GaN. Contrastly, there is much stronger YL in HR-GaN that is nearly free from VGa, suggesting that there is another origin for the YL in HR-GaN, which is thought as the carbon-involved defects. Furthermore, it is found that the HR-GaN film with shorter positron diffusion length Ld exhibits stronger YL. It is suggested that the increased wave function overlap of electrons and holes induced by the extremely strong space localization effect of holes deduced from the short Ld is the vital factor to enhance the YL efficiency in HR-GaN.

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