Radiative carrier lifetime, momentum matrix element, and hole effective mass in GaN
- 3 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 70 (5) , 631-633
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.118293
Abstract
By using picosecond time-resolved photoluminescence we have measured the lifetime of excess charge carriers in GaN epitaxial layers grown on sapphire at temperatures up to 300 K. The decay time turns out to be dominated by trapping processes at low excitation levels. The radiative lifetime derived from our data is dominated by free excitons at temperatures below 150 K, but also clearly shows the gradual thermal dissociation of excitons at higher temperatures. From our data, we are able to determine the free exciton binding energy and the free carrier radiative recombination coefficient. By combining these data with optical absorption data, we find the interband momentum matrix element and an estimate for the hole effective mass, which is much larger than previously thought.Keywords
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