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Journal
Description: 
We have studied the thermal quenching of the ultraviolet luminescence band with a maximum at about 3.25 eV in p-type Mg-doped GaN. The characteristic temperature of the thermal quenching of photoluminescence (PL) gradually shifted to higher temperatures with increasing excitation intensity. This effect is explained by a population inversion of charge carriers at low temperatures, which suddenly converts into a quasiequilibrium population as the temperature increases above the characteristic value. Tunable quenching of PL has been observed only in some of the GaN: Mg samples. The absence of the tunable quenching of PL in another group of GaN: Mg samples is preliminarily attributed to different types of dominant nonradiative defects in the two groups of samples.
Publisher: 
American Physical Society
Publication date: 
13 Mar 2013
Authors: 

Michael A Reshchikov, JD McNamara, S Fernández-Garrido, R Calarco

Biblio References: 
Volume: 87 Issue: 11 Pages: 115205
Origin: 
Physical Review B