Optical Absorption Edge Broadening In Thick Ingan Layers: Random Alloy Atomic Disorder And Growth Mode Induced Fluctuations
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS(2018)
摘要
To assess the impact of random alloying on the optical properties of the InGaN alloy, high-quality InxGa1-xN (0 < x < 0.18) epilayers grown on c-plane free-standing GaN substrates are characterized both structurally and optically. The thickness (25-100 nm) was adjusted to keep these layers pseudomorphically strained over the whole range of explored indium content as checked by x-ray diffraction measurements. The evolution of the low temperature optical absorption (OA) edge line-width as a function of absorption energy, and hence the indium content, is analyzed in the framework of the random alloy model. The latter shows that the OA edge linewidth should not markedly increase above an indium content of 4%, varying from 17 meV to 30 meV for 20% indium. The experimental data initially follow the same trend with, however, a deviation from this model for indium contents exceeding only similar to 2%. Complementary room temperature near-field photoluminescence measurements carried out using a scanning near-field optical microscope combined with simultaneous surface morphology mappings reveal spatial disorder due to growth meandering. We conclude that for thick high-quality pseudomorphic InGaN layers, a deviation from pure random alloying occurs due to the interplay between indium incorporation and longer range fluctuations induced by the InGaN step-meandering growth mode. (C) 2018 Author(s).
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thick ingan layers,optical absorption edge,random alloy,atomic disorder,fluctuations
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