Ultrafast carrier dynamics in nano-clustered InGaN

Hsiang-Chen Wang; Yen-Cheng Lu; Cheng-Yen Chen; Fang-Yi Jen; C. C. Yang

doi:10.1117/12.641136

15 February 2006 Ultrafast carrier dynamics in nano-clustered InGaN

Hsiang-Chen Wang, Yen-Cheng Lu, Cheng-Yen Chen, Fang-Yi Jen, C. C. Yang

Proceedings Volume 6118, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials X; 61180B (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.641136
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We perform fs degenerate pump-probe experiments on an InGaN/GaN quantum-well sample and an InGaN thin film of 800 nm in thickness, in which nm-scale cluster structures have been identified. In the InGaN/GaN quantum-well sample, we can identify three stages of carrier relaxation. The fast-decay time, ranging from several hundred fs to one ps, corresponds to the process reaching a local quasi-equilibrium condition, in which carriers reach a thermal distribution within one or a few nearby indium-rich clusters. The slow-decay time, ranging from tens to a couple hundred ps, corresponds to the process reaching a global quasi-equilibrium condition, in which carriers reach a thermal distribution among different clusters of various potential minima. In this stage, the mechanism of carrier transport over barriers between clusters dominates the relaxation process. Finally, carrier recombination dominates the relaxation process with the carrier lifetime in the range of a few ns. In the InGaN thin film sample, we can identify the variation of the space-averaged density of state with energy level in this sample. The carrier dynamics is controlled by the shift of effective bandgap and hence the behavior of band filling, which are determined by the combined effect of bandgap renormalization and phonon effect (bandgap shrinkage with increasing temperature). Two-photon absorption and free-carrier absorption can be observed when the corresponding density of state is low and hence the band-filling effect is weak. The variation of the space-averaged density of state with energy level can be due to the existence of indium-composition-fluctuation nanostructures, which is caused by the spinodal decomposition process.

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Hsiang-Chen Wang, Yen-Cheng Lu, Cheng-Yen Chen, Fang-Yi Jen, and C. C. Yang "Ultrafast carrier dynamics in nano-clustered InGaN", Proc. SPIE 6118, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials X, 61180B (15 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.641136

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