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Photoluminescence properties of undoped wurtzite GaN epilayers grown on sapphire substrates with different buffer layer treatment conditions in metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth have been studied as a function of temperature. At low temperatures, very well resolved spectral features associated with the GaN band structure were observed. From the photoluminescence (PL) data for free excitons, an accurate value of the A exciton binding energy was found. The localization energies of the excitons bound to neutral acceptor are found to agree with Haynes’ rule with the proportionality factor close to 0.1. The longitudinal optical (LO) phonon assisted photoluminescence associated with both the bound and free excitons has been observed. The characteristics of free excitons and their LO phonon replica have been studied in detail with the temperature variation and related to the point defects. The behavior of the peak energy and the full width at half maximum of the exciton band as a function of ...

We investigated the effects of surface roughness and grain boundary diffusion (GBD) at elevated temperatures on the Auger‐electron‐spectroscopy sputter depth profiles of Co–Ag bilayers and the GBD process of Ag atoms in Co. The Ag layer in the Ag/Co bilayer is transformed from a uniform layer to discrete islands by heat treatment. Enhanced mobility during sputtering at elevated temperatures makes Ag atoms migrate continually from islands to cover neighboring exposed Co, which reduces the size of Ag islands. On the other hand, the surface morphological modification of Co/Ag bilayer does not occur by heat treatment, and the depth profile at 340 °C resembles that from a uniformly intermixed film, which shows a drastic difference from that of Ag/Co. This is explained with a very thin and stable accumulation of Ag on the Co layer by GBD. A model of structural changes in Co/Ag subjected to ion sputtering at elevated temperatures is proposed on the basis of the results. The activation energy and pre‐exponential ...

Photoluminescence of AlxGa1−xAs/AlyGa1−yAs heterostructures has been performed in presence of high magnetic fields. Under the magnetic field the broad carbon related peak becomes resolved into several narrow peaks. Experimental results and a theoretical analysis based on the single band model suggest that these peaks are due to the recombination of free electrons with holes bound to neutral carbon atoms distributed in the several atomic layers in the well side of the interfaces of the heterostructures. Magnetic fields reduce the effects of interfacial roughness and make it possible to resolve the carbon related peak into several peaks.

A method of evaluating interface states for coupled superlattices has been developed. Explicit solutions for these states have been obtained within the framework of the Kronig–Penney model for the case of two semiconductor superlattices coupled by a tunnel barrier. The interface states are shown to be largely dependent on the coupling strength if the constituent superlattices have identical structure parameters, while insensitive to the tunnel barrier thickness if their structure parameters differ. In the latter case, electrons behave as if the system were composed of two decoupled semi‐infinite superlattices.

P-doped ZnO was fabricated by means of the ion-implantation method. At the Raman measurement, the blue shift of the E2high mode and A1(LO) phonon of the inactive mode were observed after the P-ion implantation. It suggested to be caused by the compressive stress. Thus, Hall effect measurement indicates that the acceptor levels exists in P-doped ZnO while still maintaining n-type ZnO. From the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the chemical bond formation of the P2p3/2 spectrum consisted of 2(P2O5) molecules. Therefore, the implanted P ions were substituted to the Zn site in ZnO. From the photoluminescence (PL) spectra, P-related PL peaks were observed in the energy ranges of 3.1 and 3.5 eV, and its origin was analyzed at PZn-2VZn complexes, acting as a shallow acceptor. With increasing temperatures, the neutral-acceptor bound-exciton emission, (A0, X), shows a tendency to quench the intensity and extend the emission linewidth. From the relations of the intensity and the linewidth as a function of temperatu...