Photoluminescence spectroscopy using a scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) is a powerful technique to study luminescence properties of III-Nitride semiconductors. To date, we have developed a SNOM with an excitation and a detection wavelength of 210 nm and >220 nm, respectively.[1] The deep-ultraviolet (DUV) SNOM has the shortest operation wavelength ever reported and visualizes the localized emission nature of Al-rich AlGaN quantum wells with a spatial resolution exceeding 150 nm. In the presentation, recent progresses of our study using the DUV-SNOM are given.
[1] Ishii et al., APL Photonics 4, 070801 (2019).
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