Boron influence on bandgap and photoluminescence in BGaN grown on AlN
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Zdanowicz, E.
Iida, Daisuke

Pawlaczyk, L.

Serafinczuk, J.

Szukiewicz, R.

Kudrawiec, R.

Hommel, D.

Ohkawa, Kazuhiro

KAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) DivisionElectrical Engineering Program
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BAS/1/1676-01-01Date
2020-04-29Online Publication Date
2020-04-29Print Publication Date
2020-04-30Embargo End Date
2021-04-29Submitted Date
2019-11-19Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/662688
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Since the BGaN alloy is considered a promising material in the wide range of optoelectronic applications, a detailed study of its band structure and optical properties is highly demanded. Here, BxGa1 xN layers with 0.5%, 1.1%, and 1.2% B were grown by metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy on AlN/sapphire templates and investigated by structural and optical methods. The bandgaps of the investigated alloys were examined by contactless electroreflectance (CER) spectroscopy. Because no GaN layer is present in the investigated samples, the detected CER resonances do not overlap with the GaN-related signal, which is typical for BGaN layers grown on GaN templates. Thus, the energy of the bandgap-related transition in BGaN samples can be unambiguously determined from the resonances observed in the CER spectra. The boron-induced redshift of the bandgap was determined to be about 60 meV/% B for the studied samples. By means of photoluminescence measurements, the deteriorating optical quality of samples with increasing boron content is shown as the decreasing bandgapto defect-related emission intensity ratio. What is more, the defect-related emission is shifted from typical for GaN yellow range to the red and is located at 1.9 eV for all BGaN samples.Citation
Zdanowicz, E., Iida, D., Pawlaczyk, L., Serafinczuk, J., Szukiewicz, R., Kudrawiec, R., … Ohkawa, K. (2020). Boron influence on bandgap and photoluminescence in BGaN grown on AlN. Journal of Applied Physics, 127(16), 165703. doi:10.1063/1.5140413Sponsors
This work was performed within the Grant No. TEAM TECH/2016-3/16 from the Foundation for Polish Science. At the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, this work was supported by the SONATA grant from the National Science Centre (No. 2015/17/D/ST7/04081). This work was financially supported by the KAUST (No. BAS/1/1676-01-01).Publisher
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Journal of Applied PhysicsAdditional Links
http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5140413ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1063/1.5140413