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    Electric field dependent radiative decay kinetics of polar InGaN/GaN quantum heterostructures at low fields
    (American Institute of Physics, 2009-05-29) Sari, E.; Nizamoglu, S.; Lee, I. H.; Baek, J. H.; Demir, Hilmi Volkan
    Electric field dependent photoluminescence decay kinetics and its radiative component are studied in polar InGaN/GaN quantum heterostructures at low fields. Under externally applied electric field lower than polarization fields, spectrally and time resolved photoluminescence measurements are taken to retrieve internal quantum efficiencies and carrier lifetimes as a function of the applied field. Subsequently, relative behavior of radiative recombination lifetimes is obtained in response to the applied field. In these characterizations of polar InGaN/GaN structures, we observe that both the carrier lifetime and the radiative recombination lifetime decrease with increasing external electric field, with the radiative component exhibiting weaker field dependence.
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    Nonradiative recombination-Critical in choosing quantum well number for InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes
    (Optical Society of American (OSA), 2015) Zhang, Y.P.; Zhang, Z.-H.; Liu W.; Tan, S.T.; Ju, Z.G.; Zhang X.L.; Ji, Y.; Wang L.C.; Kyaw, Z.; Hasanov, N.; Zhu, B.B.; Lu, S.P.; Sun X.W.; Demir, Hilmi Volkan
    In this work, InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes (LEDs) possessing varied quantum well (QW) numbers were systematically investigated both numerically and experimentally. The numerical computations show that with the increased QW number, a reduced electron leakage can be achieved and hence the efficiency droop can be reduced when a constant Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) nonradiative recombination lifetime is used for all the samples. However, the experimental results indicate that, though the efficiency droop is suppressed, the LED optical power is first improved and then degraded with the increasing QW number. The analysis of the measured external quantum efficiency (EQE) with the increasing current revealed that an increasingly dominant SRH nonradiative recombination is induced with more epitaxial QWs, which can be related to the defect generation due to the strain relaxation, especially when the effective thickness exceeds the critical thickness. These observations were further supported by the carrier lifetime measurement using a pico-second time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) system, which allowed for a revised numerical modeling with the different SRH lifetimes considered. This work provides useful guidelines on choosing the critical QW number when designing LED structures. © 2014 Optical Society of America.