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Phonon emission by photoexcited carriers in InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells

A V Akimov1, S A Cavill1, A J Kent1, N M Stanton1, T Wang2 and S Sakai2

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The effect of well width on both the photoluminescence (PL) and phonon emission in optically excited InGaN multiple quantum well (MQW) samples has been investigated. For narrow MQW samples (w<2.5 nm), the low-temperature PL quantum efficiency is close to unity with the phonon emission being due mainly to carrier relaxation in the QWs. For wider MQWs samples the PL quantum efficiency is reduced and the intensity of the phonon emission increases. We explain this in terms of the non-radiative recombination processes in the QWs which result in phonon emission and compete with the radiative process.


PACS

78.55.Cr III-V semiconductors

78.67.De Quantum wells

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Semiconductors

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 13 (8 April 2002)

Received 9 July 2001

Published 22 March 2002



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