HL 50 Poster II - DPG-Verhandlungen
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Semiconductor Physics Thursday<br />
splitting due to strain. Surprisingly defect-related emission at lower energies<br />
is also linearly polarized, but perpendicular to the quantum well<br />
emission. This is most likely due to preferential defect alignment during<br />
epitaxy.<br />
<strong>HL</strong> <strong>50</strong>.20 Thu 16:30 P3<br />
Optical and electrical properties of nitride-based UV LEDs —<br />
•D. Fuhrmann, T. Retzlaff, T. Litte, H. Bremers, U. Rossow,<br />
D. Dräger, and A. Hangleiter — TU Braunschweig, Inst. f. Angewandte<br />
Physik, Mendelssohnstr. 2, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany<br />
During the last years, the efficiency of UV light emitting diodes based<br />
on AlGaN/AlGaN or GaN/AlGaN quantum well (QW) structures was<br />
strongly improved. But still, they are about one order of magnitude less<br />
efficient compared to their GaInN/GaN-based counterparts emitting in<br />
the visible spectrum. In this contribution we show our approach in order<br />
to optimize the internal quantum efficiency (IQE) of GaN/AlGaN QWs<br />
with an emission wavelength around 3<strong>50</strong>nm. The samples were grown by<br />
low pressure MOVPE. The good material quality of the AlGaN buffer<br />
layer was revealed by both XRD measurements and the low temperature<br />
PL linewidth. We used temperature and excitation power dependent<br />
photoluminescence to determine the IQE. For our structures we find IQE<br />
values as high as 26% under resonant excitation. Using a nonresonant<br />
excitation with a power density of some kW/cm 2 the IQE increases even<br />
to 38%. For optimized SQW structures we find a very similar behavior<br />
concerning the IQE dependence on temperature and excitation power<br />
for both GaN/AlGaN UV-emitting structures and GaInN/GaN blue light<br />
emitters. This indicates that in both cases similar mechanisms limiting<br />
the IQE are present. A further improvement was achieved by applying<br />
an AlN buffer layer between the sapphire substrate and the AlGaN layer.<br />
Then we observed a significant improvement of the n- and p-type doping<br />
of the AlGaN layer, which will help to realize a high power UV-LED.<br />
<strong>HL</strong> <strong>50</strong>.21 Thu 16:30 P3<br />
Electro- and photoluminescence investigations of nitride-based<br />
blue and green LEDs — •T. Litte, D. Fuhrmann, C. Netzel,<br />
H. Bremers, U. Rossow, and A. Hangleiter — TU Braunschweig,<br />
Inst. f. Angew. Phys., Mendelssohnstr.2, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany<br />
In recent years very high values of 70% and 40% for the internal quantum<br />
efficiency (IQE) of GaInN/GaN based LEDs emitting in the blue<br />
and green spectral region, respectively, have been achieved. But still all<br />
devices suffer so far from a decrease of the efficiency with increasing drive<br />
current. This effect becomes even more pronounced for larger emission<br />
wavelengths λpeak. In order to understand the mechanisms limiting the<br />
quantum efficiency we present here a detailed analysis of photoluminesence<br />
(PL) and electroluminesence (EL) data for blue and green emitting<br />
LEDs. The structures were grown by low pressure MOVPE and further<br />
processed into simple LEDs. The active region consisted of single<br />
and double Ga1−xInxN quantum wells (QWs) with xIn=0.15...0.26 and<br />
dQW =1.5nm...3nm and GaN barriers. We used temperature and excitation<br />
power dependent PL to determine the IQE. For both blue and green<br />
LEDs we find a good aggrement between PL and EL spectra in terms of<br />
the linewidth. We observe a very similar shift of the PL and EL peak<br />
position with increasing excitation power. As expected the wavelength<br />
shift is more pronounced for green LEDs and becomes larger for QWs<br />
with larger dQW and smaller xIn compared to QWs emitting at the same<br />
λpeak but have smaller dQW and larger xIn. In addition we find that the<br />
drop in efficiency at higher current is smallest for LEDs that show the<br />
smallest shift of the peak position (i.e. small dQW , large xIn).<br />
<strong>HL</strong> <strong>50</strong>.22 Thu 16:30 P3<br />
UHV-cathodoluminescence investigation of metastable light<br />
emission in GaN/GaInN quantum well structures — •Martina<br />
Finke, Daniel Fuhrmann, Carsten Netzel, Heiko Bremers,<br />
Uwe Rossow, and Andreas Hangleiter — TU Braunschweig, Inst.<br />
f. Angewandte Physik, 38106 Braunschweig<br />
In GaN/GaInN quantum well structures, the spontaneous and the<br />
piezoelectrical fields have a strong effect on the optical properties. The<br />
spontaneous field is normally shielded by charged species on the surface.<br />
Since the spontaneous field counteracts the piezoelectrical field,<br />
a blueshift in the peak-position of the luminescence and an increased<br />
intensity is expected by a removal of the deposited particles. We investigated<br />
the cathodoluminescence for various surface conditions after<br />
etching, annealing and electron beam exposition in an UHV environment.<br />
We studied several GaInN quantum well structures with different indium<br />
concentration and layer thicknesses at room and low temperatures. From<br />
time dependent measurements we find that the intensity of the luminescence<br />
of QW samples first increases rapidly and then decreases at longer<br />
times during electron beam exposure. We attribute this to a change of<br />
the spontaneous field due to electron-stimulated-desorption or due to a<br />
stimulated chemical reaction induced by the electron beam. Using systematic<br />
experiments we try to understand how the surface conditions<br />
influence the luminescence properties of QW structures via the effect of<br />
the spontaneous polarisation.<br />
<strong>HL</strong> <strong>50</strong>.23 Thu 16:30 P3<br />
Temperature- and electric field-dependence of photoluminescence<br />
spectra of InGaN/GaN-heterostructures — •Clemens<br />
Vierheilig 1 , Harald Braun 1 , Nikolaus Gmeinwieser 1 , Ulrich<br />
T. Schwarz 1 , Werner Wegscheider 1 , Elmar Baur 2 , Uwe<br />
Strauß 2 , and Volker Härle 2 — 1 Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät <strong>II</strong><br />
- Physik, Universität Regensburg Universitätsstr. 31, 93053 Regensburg,<br />
Germany — 2 OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Wernerwerkstr. 2,<br />
93049 Regensburg, Germany<br />
For further enhance the efficiency of InGaN-based LEDs, it is necessary<br />
to get a good knowledge of the processes in the active layer, in<br />
particular the impact of InGaN/GaN quantum wells and barrier structure,<br />
piezoelectric fields, and indium-fluctuation induced carrier localizations.<br />
We study the influence of these effects on carrier capture and<br />
internal efficiency. We measure field-dependent electroluminescence (EL)<br />
and photoluminescence (PL) spectra in a temperature-range between 4K<br />
and room temperature with our confocal micro-Photoluminescence setup<br />
to access a wide range of excitation densities. The radiative and nonradiative<br />
carrier-recombination rates extracted from these steady-state<br />
experiments are then compared to time-resolved measurements from a<br />
macro-PL measuring station. The results allow to draw conclusions on<br />
the mechanisms of radiative and nonradiative carrier-recombination.<br />
<strong>HL</strong> <strong>50</strong>.24 Thu 16:30 P3<br />
Waveguide mode dynamics of InGaN laser diodes — •Christoph<br />
Lauterbach 1 , Ulrich Schwarz 1 , Alfred Lell 2 , and Volker<br />
Härle 2 — 1 Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Universität<br />
Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg — 2 OSRAM Opto Semiconductors<br />
GmbH, Wernerwerkstr. 2, 93049 Regensburg<br />
We use a scanning near-field microscope (SNOM) in combination with<br />
a time resolved detection scheme to measure the evolution of the nearfield<br />
and far-field of InGaN laser diode (LD) waveguide modes. We observe<br />
lateral mode competition, filamentation, and beam steering. Here<br />
we compare the lateral mode dynamics for ridge waveguide LDs and oxide<br />
stripe LDs which are predominantly index and gain guided, respectively.<br />
We observe a distinct difference in the mode dynamics for ridge waveguide<br />
and oxide stripe LDs. For the former the spatio-temporal pattern<br />
resembles the mode behavior of a hard wall box defined by the edge of<br />
the ridge. For the latter the soft confinement defined by the gain guiding<br />
profile leads to a better centering of the mode and a more stable mode<br />
pattern. Filamentation affects both ridge waveguide and oxide stripe<br />
LDs in a similar manner.<br />
<strong>HL</strong> <strong>50</strong>.25 Thu 16:30 P3<br />
AlGaN templates on sapphire — •Kai Otte, Tomohiro Yamaguchi,<br />
Stephan Figge, and Detlef Hommel — Universität Bremen,<br />
Otto-Hahn Allee 1, 28359 Bremen<br />
To grow unstrained AlInN/GaN vertical cavity surface emitting laser<br />
(VCSEL) structures with high aluminium content one needs templates<br />
with a higher lattice constant than GaN. This can be reached by adding<br />
aluminium to the GaN template layer.<br />
We report on the growth of AlGaN templates by metal organic vapor<br />
phase epitaxy on sapphire. The 2 µm thick AlGaN layers with an aluminium<br />
mole fraction of 0.25 were grown on low temperature AlGaN<br />
nucleation layers.<br />
High resolution x-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy<br />
data showing crack-free and compressively strained (ɛxx,yy =<br />
0.3 at room temperature) templates will be presented. The templates<br />
show no compositional fluctuation in growth direction.<br />
Reflectometry measurements during growth show no three dimensional<br />
island growth but two dimensional growth. This points to a high defect<br />
density. To reduce this effect different nucleation layers were grown.<br />
These templates are promising for the growth of VCSEL structures. A<br />
comparison of distributed Bragg reflectors grown on AlGaN and GaN<br />
templates will be shown.