Impacts of carrier capture processes in the thermal quenching of photoluminescence in Al-N co-doped SiCShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics (Print), ISSN 0946-2171, E-ISSN 1432-0649, Vol. 125, no 9, article id 172Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
High concentrations of aluminum (Al) and nitrogen (N) dopants of 6H SiC have been achieved by a fast sublimation growth process. The Al-N co-doped 6H-SiC layer exhibits a strong light-blue photoluminescence emission at low temperatures due to emissions from D-I centers and donor acceptor pairs (DAP). The photoluminescence quenching mechanisms of those emissions are different. The decrease of free carrier capture cross-section as temperature increases according to the cascade capture process causes quenching of the photoluminescence emission form D-I centers. Emission from Al-N DAP centers exhibits an exponential quenching with activation energy of (95 +/- 10) meV. This is attributed to a competing hole capture by non-radiative defect in a multiphonon emission process.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG , 2019. Vol. 125, no 9, article id 172
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-160598DOI: 10.1007/s00340-019-7279-8ISI: 000485199100002OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-160598DiVA, id: diva2:1362716
Note
Funding Agencies|Innovation Fund Denmark [4106-00018B]; Independent Research Fund Denmark [8022-00294B]
2019-10-212019-10-212019-10-21