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Journal
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A majority of the point defects in GaN that are responsible for broad photoluminescence (PL) bands remain unidentified. One of them is the green luminescence band (GL2) having a maximum at 2.35 eV which was observed previously in undoped GaN grown by molecular-beam epitaxy in Ga-rich conditions. The same PL band was observed in Mg-doped GaN, also grown in very Ga-rich conditions. The unique properties of the GL2 band allowed us to reliably identify it in different samples. The best candidate for the defect which causes the GL2 band is a nitrogen vacancy (V N). We propose that transitions of electrons from the conduction band to the+/2+ transition level of the V N defect are responsible for the GL2 band in high-resistivity undoped and Mg-doped GaN.
Publisher: 
American Physical Society
Publication date: 
21 Jul 2014
Authors: 

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

Biblio References: 
Volume: 90 Issue: 3 Pages: 035207
Origin: 
Physical Review B